📢NEW @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social #SEDAEdDevs Issue 27.2 OUT NOW, read via: www.seda.ac.uk/seda-publish... Please repost in your networks 🙏 Happy Reading, consider contributing an article via: www.seda.ac.uk/seda-publish.... #EdDev #HigherEd #education (cc @anniehughes.bsky.social)

Independent providers ‘ready-made solution’ to UK’s problems: newly appointed chair of IHE on weeding out bad actors, complementing traditional universities and the perks of small teams https://ow.ly/ttZt50ZvNry

Foxhill Golf Club Ottershaw, Surrey - Sunday Evening in #Summer #England

Wordle 1,871 3/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,869 6/6 - the Burnham bounce is real 😅 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,868 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,867 5/6 - tried the @andyburnham.bsky.social wordle tip of starting with Adieu, on my return to Wordle. Not as epic as becoming PM, but hey... every journey restarts with a 5 letter word! ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Week 1 of the new season of the @labouruk.bsky.social 'The Only Way is Politics' with new lead character @andyburnham.bsky.social has been interesting. Good to see former UAL VC James Purnell in a supporting cast role. 😆 Who will be a faithful and who will a traitor, find out next week....

Claudia Winkleman Asks for Quiet

ALT: Claudia Winkleman Asks for Quiet

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📢 NEW @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social blog post on the 9th June webinar about blogging and other scholarship... I know, very meta 😀 thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/p... Slides, Recording + some feedback. Follow-up events being discussed! #SEDABlog2Book #Scholarship #HigherEducation please repost 🙏

Publishing with SEDA: From Blog to Book (webinar)

On the 9th June 2026, editors in chief of the SEDA publications along with Sarah Hyde, Senior Commissioning Editor at Routledge, came together to present a webinar giving the over 80 participants a…

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We used to have political stability in the UK, the football team wasn't that good; Italy had instability, but had a good football team. How the tables have turned! ⚽️🌎🏆 #UKPM #UKPolitics

I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:

Beer Bottle Exchange? - Bottle in an old circuit box of a rusty lamppost - Raynes Park #London #Summer #July

🗓️Today marks 20 years exactly (18th July 2006) since I graduated from Brunel University of London at the old Wembley Conference Centre before it was demolished in September 2006. A very hot day, 33C if I remember correctly. Happy graduation to everyone graduating 🎉 #HigherEducation #Graduation

Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams shocking insider account of working at Facebook is an essential read. FB/Meta have blocked her from promoting it. I am with Lawrence Lessig - let's all promote the book, since the author can't. lessig.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

Let’s create the “Wynn-Williams Effect”

From the How-to-make-bad-behavior-self-defeating Department

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Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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This @theguardian.com series of articles on #America250 #4thJuly #IndependenceDay offers some perspective. Happy 4th July to US followers! www.theguardian.com/us-news/seri...

📢 NEW Episode of #TalkingHE Podcast 🎙️ OUT NOW with Ellie Garraway, CEO of @gritbreakthrough.bsky.social, discussing working with Universities to change the life chances of young people. Listen and subscribe 🔔via: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Please share with your networks 🙏

📢 Thank you @jamdsf123.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social for the invite to write for Digital Education Studio Newsletter, along with @suebecks.bsky.social, some light weekend reading, please share widely 🙏 www.qmul.ac.uk/digital-educ...

A Row of Red Roses - a Scent and Vision on the morning walk into work... #Summer #London #Wimbledon #Flowers

"Universities Spent Years Missing the AI Warning Signs. Now They Pay a Machine to Find Them."

Universities Spent Years Missing the AI Warning Signs. Now They Pay a Machine to Find Them.

AI is transforming every corner of higher education — from admissions to advising — faster than universities can write the rules to govern it.

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Just a façade ... the House with no back, just a front. A symbol of public life, politics etc. #London #Summer #Renovation #Revamp

New Balls Please! - Must be #Wimbledon - Allium Florists, West Wimbledon putting on a display again #London #Summer #Tennis

Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... - the funniest man alive 🤣, Happy Birthday! 🎉

Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

The director of The Producers hits his century as a uniquely beloved entertainer who embodies his conviction that ‘comedy is the opposite of death’

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📢 NEW Episode of #TalkingHE Podcast 🎙️ out Friday, 3rd July with Ellie Garraway, CEO of @gritbreakthrough.bsky.social, discussing working with Universities to change the life chances of young people. Listen and subscribe 🔔via: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Please share with your networks 🙏

Had the best chat with @santanuvasant.bsky.social yesterday for Talking HE podcast. Was really good, been a while since I heard a truly authentic voice like that. Can see why the podcast is so popular. Thanks Santanu, delight to do. Check it out here ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/7zrS...

TalkingHE - Trailer

TalkingHE · Episode

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Watching @openuniversity.bsky.social Real Futures Live on YouTube with 115 others, from the XR Studios, Milton Keynes. It's like a mash up of BBC's Tomorrow's World and the 1970s OU Saturday morning TV shows with some polls and live chat. 🤔

I wrote a short blog post on 22 years in higher education on Sunday relates to some of the themes to tonight's #LTHEChat www.santanuvasant.com/2026/06/21/t...

The Higher Education Catch-22: Two Decades of Innovation, Stasis, and the Quest for Purpose

As I finish my twenty-second year in higher education, at the coal face, it can sometimes feel like a high-speed treadmill moving backwards. There is a recurring theme that in this short blog post I w...

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Red alert, red alert, it's a catastrophe; But don't worry; Don't panic; Ain't nothin' goin' on but history, yeah; But it's alright; Don't panic - Basement Jaxx Song Lyrics 🎵 #UKheatwave #redalert #June #Summer ☀️

We hate to say we told you so substrate.dougbelshaw.com/climate-chan...

This @openuniversity.bsky.social free event on Thursday evening, 25th June looks interesting #HigherEducation #Careers #AI www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/real-futur...

Real Futures Live (7pm - 9pm)

A live online event from The Open University exploring how technology, skills and innovation are reshaping careers, learning and opportunity

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