Dr Barbara Eichner
@barbaraeichner.bsky.social
Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
Lowest number of graduate job openings since 2020. This is a core labour market problem that universities cannot fix, but routinely get the blame for.
UK graduate job openings fall to lowest level since pandemic
Indeed’s findings point to challenge facing Andy Burnham to boost youth unemployment and cut welfare bill
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Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
democracyforsale.substack.com
The saddest news of all. A business there for just shy of 90 years. And a casualty of the closure of St David’s College. This is going to happen all over the country where and when universities and colleges start closing down due to the higher education funding crisis.
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
theguardian.com
Yn a worlde where the humanityes are being systematicallye defunded by both the righte and the lefte, the internet ys one big seminar about the meaninge of *The Odyssey.* Ther ys a lesson yn thys somewher. And the lesson ys: funde the humanityes.
Each post that we axe is a generations-deep accumulation of disciplinary knowledge. Once the post goes, so does the development of that knowledge. Knowledge grows in community. Each post lost is a narrowing, a lessening, a lengthening timeframe for knowledge growth.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w agoMy heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.
Bridget Phillipson no longer Minister for Ignoring the Crisis in Higher Education.
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
Shouldn't the Argentinians players have lined up for the match officials as well? It seems a bit churlish to hang back and sulk.
Let's see if Trump intervenes against this red card. #SPAARG
Spain is a team of 11 midfielders, and Argentina is a team of 10 bastards and a genius — and it doesn’t make for great telly
Where I come from, the half-time show is Ruch Chorzów ultras throwing Molotov cocktails at Legia Warszawa fans, and I think that has higher cultural value than this thing.
They should let England and France play ten minutes during halftime.
The Argentine national anthem sounds like the tail end of a Rossini ensemble, but full marks to the players for belting along at the top of their lungs. #ESPARG
now I’m starting to think that France did this on purpose because they knew it would be funnier
Imagine if France have set themselves a challenge. "Un jeu". To not play in the first half and then see if they can still win in the second half. Ridiculous idea. Forget I said it.
No longer a joke candidate, Count Binface offers a manifesto that delivers far more for Clacton than Farage ever has.
Every one of the Argentinians should be assigned his own referee
As usual, Argentina's best player is the ref. #ENGARG
I hate this celebrity refereeing. Yamal and Rodri should have had yellow cards by now. #FRAESP
“nearly 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone”
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
