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A brilliant take down of the reckless tech-bro optimism of Cardiff University management plans.
'A flagship national university cannot be run like a tech startup.'
Indeed, *no* university should be run like that!
'A flagship national university cannot be run like a tech startup.'
Indeed, *no* university should be run like that!
Disruption and market futurology at Cardiff University - Institute of Welsh Affairs
Cardiff University academics explain how the pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the institution risk its collapse.
www.iwa.wales
June 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A brilliant take down of the reckless tech-bro optimism of Cardiff University management plans.
'A flagship national university cannot be run like a tech startup.'
Indeed, *no* university should be run like that!
'A flagship national university cannot be run like a tech startup.'
Indeed, *no* university should be run like that!
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This is harrowing.
Thank goodness for these observant bystanders!
Do you know the universal sign for help? I didn’t.
As more young men fall victim to the Tates & misogynists of the world, we all need to be more aware!
See below for the signal. ⬇️
🧵
(posted on IG by @juliettelewis.bsky.social)
Thank goodness for these observant bystanders!
Do you know the universal sign for help? I didn’t.
As more young men fall victim to the Tates & misogynists of the world, we all need to be more aware!
See below for the signal. ⬇️
🧵
(posted on IG by @juliettelewis.bsky.social)
June 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is harrowing.
Thank goodness for these observant bystanders!
Do you know the universal sign for help? I didn’t.
As more young men fall victim to the Tates & misogynists of the world, we all need to be more aware!
See below for the signal. ⬇️
🧵
(posted on IG by @juliettelewis.bsky.social)
Thank goodness for these observant bystanders!
Do you know the universal sign for help? I didn’t.
As more young men fall victim to the Tates & misogynists of the world, we all need to be more aware!
See below for the signal. ⬇️
🧵
(posted on IG by @juliettelewis.bsky.social)
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Great turn out from @ucu-cardiff-met.bsky.social protesting job cuts. Solidarity ✊
May 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Great turn out from @ucu-cardiff-met.bsky.social protesting job cuts. Solidarity ✊
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Solidarity from @cardiffucu.bsky.social.
There’s a state of emergency in UK HE.
If bosses won’t rule out compulsory redundancies @ucu.org.uk branches should ballot, & maintain rolling strike mandates ready to fight the chaos they bring to our lives & our sector.
There’s always an alternative
💗✊
There’s a state of emergency in UK HE.
If bosses won’t rule out compulsory redundancies @ucu.org.uk branches should ballot, & maintain rolling strike mandates ready to fight the chaos they bring to our lives & our sector.
There’s always an alternative
💗✊
Latest word from the VC is "September we'll be consulting again on what the next changes might be in the academic year 2526"
When will colleagues stop paying the price of management's financial decisions?
#nocompulsoryredundancies 2/2
When will colleagues stop paying the price of management's financial decisions?
#nocompulsoryredundancies 2/2
May 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Solidarity from @cardiffucu.bsky.social.
There’s a state of emergency in UK HE.
If bosses won’t rule out compulsory redundancies @ucu.org.uk branches should ballot, & maintain rolling strike mandates ready to fight the chaos they bring to our lives & our sector.
There’s always an alternative
💗✊
There’s a state of emergency in UK HE.
If bosses won’t rule out compulsory redundancies @ucu.org.uk branches should ballot, & maintain rolling strike mandates ready to fight the chaos they bring to our lives & our sector.
There’s always an alternative
💗✊
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I do the Radical Family Space in the Campaigns field.
If you come, I’ll indoctrinate your kids while you go & do other stuff.
If you come, I’ll indoctrinate your kids while you go & do other stuff.
May 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I do the Radical Family Space in the Campaigns field.
If you come, I’ll indoctrinate your kids while you go & do other stuff.
If you come, I’ll indoctrinate your kids while you go & do other stuff.
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Hey all. Please share!
Think about going to the Green Gathering festival in Chepstow.
It’s an awesome, off-grid, old-school festival with excellent vibes, great political spaces, amazing participatory crafts workshops, & loads of hippy healing woo (optional).
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
www.greengathering.org.uk
Think about going to the Green Gathering festival in Chepstow.
It’s an awesome, off-grid, old-school festival with excellent vibes, great political spaces, amazing participatory crafts workshops, & loads of hippy healing woo (optional).
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
www.greengathering.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Hey all. Please share!
Think about going to the Green Gathering festival in Chepstow.
It’s an awesome, off-grid, old-school festival with excellent vibes, great political spaces, amazing participatory crafts workshops, & loads of hippy healing woo (optional).
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
www.greengathering.org.uk
Think about going to the Green Gathering festival in Chepstow.
It’s an awesome, off-grid, old-school festival with excellent vibes, great political spaces, amazing participatory crafts workshops, & loads of hippy healing woo (optional).
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
www.greengathering.org.uk
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My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
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The @cardiffucu.bsky.social victory shows what solidarity can achieve.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025 but the fight to save departments continues. ✊
No compulsory redundancies in 2025 but the fight to save departments continues. ✊
BBC Wales with excellent, in-depth coverage of my union branch’s bittersweet industrial relations victory in defence of Cardiff Uni jobs.
I’m interviewed for @cardiffucu.bsky.social, & also some of our *amazing* students, abt the need to keep fighting.
✊🔥💖
@ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/imSu7dkCjMU?...
I’m interviewed for @cardiffucu.bsky.social, & also some of our *amazing* students, abt the need to keep fighting.
✊🔥💖
@ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/imSu7dkCjMU?...
BBC Wales Today on deal done to save jobs & avoid industrial action at Cardiff University, 01/05/25
YouTube video by Llantwit1977
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The @cardiffucu.bsky.social victory shows what solidarity can achieve.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025 but the fight to save departments continues. ✊
No compulsory redundancies in 2025 but the fight to save departments continues. ✊
Reposted by Sue
✊💖
The @cardiffucu.bsky.social victory shows what solidarity can achieve.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025 but the fight to save departments continues. ✊
No compulsory redundancies in 2025 but the fight to save departments continues. ✊
BBC Wales with excellent, in-depth coverage of my union branch’s bittersweet industrial relations victory in defence of Cardiff Uni jobs.
I’m interviewed for @cardiffucu.bsky.social, & also some of our *amazing* students, abt the need to keep fighting.
✊🔥💖
@ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/imSu7dkCjMU?...
I’m interviewed for @cardiffucu.bsky.social, & also some of our *amazing* students, abt the need to keep fighting.
✊🔥💖
@ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/imSu7dkCjMU?...
May 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
✊💖
Reposted by Sue
Resident doctors in England to be balloted on strike action over pay
Resident doctors in England to be balloted on strike action over pay
Move comes after British Medical Association was unable to reach agreement with Wes Streeting, union says
Thousands of resident doctors in England will be balloted for strike action over pay, raising the threat of a summer of stoppages, the British Medical Association has announced.
The move comes seven months after they accepted a 22.3% pay rise over two years, for 2023/24 and 2024/25, bringing to an end one of the longest and bitterest disputes in recent NHS history. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Resident doctors in England to be balloted on strike action over pay
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 And lovely to see your students so publicly supportive. Good for them. Good for all of you.
May 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 And lovely to see your students so publicly supportive. Good for them. Good for all of you.
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'Contract documents released to Nation.Cymru under freedom of information legislation shows that the university had a legally binding contract to supply nurses to NHS Wales until 2029.'
University's plan to shut down Nursing School 'could have led to £5m fine'
Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s original plan to shut down its Nursing school could have resulted in a £5m “fine”, we can reveal. Contract documents released to Nation.Cymru under freedom of infor...
nation.cymru
May 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
'Contract documents released to Nation.Cymru under freedom of information legislation shows that the university had a legally binding contract to supply nurses to NHS Wales until 2029.'
Reposted by Sue
A #mayday win today.
Bittersweet, but a win.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025.
Promise of more partnership from management.
Students (staff, too) won’t have to suffer the awfulness of a MAB.
The struggle continues.
✊💖
@cardiffucu.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
Bittersweet, but a win.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025.
Promise of more partnership from management.
Students (staff, too) won’t have to suffer the awfulness of a MAB.
The struggle continues.
✊💖
@cardiffucu.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
Strike action at Cardiff University called off
The main union changed its mind after bosses agreed to no compulsory redundancies before the end of 2025
www.walesonline.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A #mayday win today.
Bittersweet, but a win.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025.
Promise of more partnership from management.
Students (staff, too) won’t have to suffer the awfulness of a MAB.
The struggle continues.
✊💖
@cardiffucu.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
Bittersweet, but a win.
No compulsory redundancies in 2025.
Promise of more partnership from management.
Students (staff, too) won’t have to suffer the awfulness of a MAB.
The struggle continues.
✊💖
@cardiffucu.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
Reposted by Sue
In case you hadn't noticed:
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In case you hadn't noticed:
Reposted by Sue
Oh right, good good 😳🧐
Change guru tells Cardiff University staff that proposed cuts could 'break' it
Martin Shipton The transformation guru behind Cardiff University’s controversial cuts programme has warned staff that the proposals it unveiled in January could “break” the institution. Dr David Langl...
nation.cymru
April 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Oh right, good good 😳🧐
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LBC wanted someone on from @cardiffucu.bsky.social to talk about our industrial action this summer.
I quickly went through nervousness to excitement at the challenge of a meaty interview about a marking boycott on Drive with some ex-public school boy.
Then they cancelled.
Phwoooeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I quickly went through nervousness to excitement at the challenge of a meaty interview about a marking boycott on Drive with some ex-public school boy.
Then they cancelled.
Phwoooeeeeeeeeeeeee.
a red balloon is being held by a person
Alt: a red balloon is being held by a person and deflates
media.tenor.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
LBC wanted someone on from @cardiffucu.bsky.social to talk about our industrial action this summer.
I quickly went through nervousness to excitement at the challenge of a meaty interview about a marking boycott on Drive with some ex-public school boy.
Then they cancelled.
Phwoooeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I quickly went through nervousness to excitement at the challenge of a meaty interview about a marking boycott on Drive with some ex-public school boy.
Then they cancelled.
Phwoooeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Reposted by Sue
Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live
Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live
President says university should lose government research contracts after it refused demands to accept outside political supervision
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live
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“I find it troubling that so many of those who appear to be driving the current changes at Cardiff University were so directly involved in creating the financial problems in the first place.”
Me too, Christopher. Me too.
#StopTheCuts
Me too, Christopher. Me too.
#StopTheCuts
In exactly 4 months' time I will have been working at Cardiff University for 25 years. Today is also the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. So it seemed an appropriate day for me to have a meeting with HR about my possible redundancy & the uni plans. See hoodcp.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/s...
Saving Japanese and Other Modern Languages at Cardiff University
Only a few days after returning from a very enjoyable trip to Japan in January, I came back down to Earth with a thump as first I caught a severe cold at the weekend and then, on the Tuesday, I att…
hoodcp.wordpress.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“I find it troubling that so many of those who appear to be driving the current changes at Cardiff University were so directly involved in creating the financial problems in the first place.”
Me too, Christopher. Me too.
#StopTheCuts
Me too, Christopher. Me too.
#StopTheCuts
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Cardiff uni students have great ideas
April 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Cardiff uni students have great ideas
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“News of constant job losses and course closures is causing lasting damage to universities’ reputations and may inflict further financial harm by hitting student recruitment.”
This is consistent with feedback from many @cardiffucu.bsky.social members.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf...
This is consistent with feedback from many @cardiffucu.bsky.social members.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf...
UK staff and course cuts ‘putting off prospective students’
Impact of cost-saving measures the first question being raised at open days, report academics at under-fire institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“News of constant job losses and course closures is causing lasting damage to universities’ reputations and may inflict further financial harm by hitting student recruitment.”
This is consistent with feedback from many @cardiffucu.bsky.social members.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf...
This is consistent with feedback from many @cardiffucu.bsky.social members.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf...
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Such a major decision forced through without a vote? And then a cover-up attempt?
This raises serious questions over the University's management, and will further damage the University’s reputation and staff's trust in management.
This raises serious questions over the University's management, and will further damage the University’s reputation and staff's trust in management.
Cardiff University has admitted that no formal vote was taken at its supreme governing body, the University Council, to endorse controversial plans for the development of a new 'branch campus' in Kazakhstan ✍️ Martin Shipton
Cardiff University admits no vote was taken on controversial project in Kazakhstan
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that no formal vote was taken at its supreme governing body, the University Council, to endorse controversial plans for the development of a new “branch ...
nation.cymru
April 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Such a major decision forced through without a vote? And then a cover-up attempt?
This raises serious questions over the University's management, and will further damage the University’s reputation and staff's trust in management.
This raises serious questions over the University's management, and will further damage the University’s reputation and staff's trust in management.
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Say what you want about Michael Gove getting a peerage, but Sir Sniff-a-lot has truly broken a glass ceiling here. Coke heads no longer have to hide in the closet because they will get the same opportunities as other corrupt career politicians. I think it's lovely ♥️
April 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Say what you want about Michael Gove getting a peerage, but Sir Sniff-a-lot has truly broken a glass ceiling here. Coke heads no longer have to hide in the closet because they will get the same opportunities as other corrupt career politicians. I think it's lovely ♥️
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I’ve just been on BBC Radio Wales talking about cuts at Cardiff University, and the industrial action @cardiffucu.bsky.social members will be taking this summer against compulsory redundancies.
I *really* don’t want to do a marking boycott. They suck.
We may have no choice.
youtu.be/9q-2uPm5zx4?...
I *really* don’t want to do a marking boycott. They suck.
We may have no choice.
youtu.be/9q-2uPm5zx4?...
Cardiff UCU’s Andy Williams on BBC Wales Drive & the Cardiff University marking & assessment boycott
YouTube video by Llantwit1977
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I’ve just been on BBC Radio Wales talking about cuts at Cardiff University, and the industrial action @cardiffucu.bsky.social members will be taking this summer against compulsory redundancies.
I *really* don’t want to do a marking boycott. They suck.
We may have no choice.
youtu.be/9q-2uPm5zx4?...
I *really* don’t want to do a marking boycott. They suck.
We may have no choice.
youtu.be/9q-2uPm5zx4?...
