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Good morning. It turns out that heads of universities can still be changed.
Goldsmiths's VC is booted out??? GOLDSMITHS'S FRANCES CORNER IS OUT???

The 'with immediate effect' and these three sentences being the full extent of the webpage is quite revealing of just how much drama we're not being told about: www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vc...

👀 @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social #UKHE
October 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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This is the best thing anyone working in UK Higher Education can do today, particularly if you're at Kent or Greenwich.
As a union we're stronger together.
Support your local branch.
Join the Union ASAP.
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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New Green Party advert just dropped explaining why you should vote for them. And its a cracker!
April 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Start of some really helpful commentary/summary of the HE funding committee today here: Shoutout @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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“A colleague asked me if I really expected the union to win. He could not understand why we were doing it; he thought our failure an inevitability. I relayed this to a union comrade who responded, ‘we’re a trade union in 2022, of course we don’t expect to win!’” (Zara Dinnen, 2025).
March 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Morning Bluesky.

In Türkiye, Erdogan has arrested his biggest rival and the man likely to beat him in an election, the mayor of İstanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu. Several members of his close circle have also been taken into custody.

Now a full-on autocracy.
March 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Realised today that there's not a UK contemporary dance starter pack on here, maybe there shouldn't be, but I made one

go.bsky.app/QCLedGm
March 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Some days I just want to sit here and read a whole heap of petty UK Arts Sector beef.

But instead I have to read about a former gameshow host plunging the world into crisis.
February 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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All of these issues become really acute now. But they have been visible and challenged for a while. You just didn’t want to listen and prevent then.
February 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Can we not re-write the past decade though? Lots of people have seen this issues while they were being set up and called it out all along the way. Glad you’re with us now, and support the insight you newly gained, but don’t gaslight.

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/perfect...
February 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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We’ve just added a further tranche of @ucu.org.uk branches to our UCU branches and regions starter pack - see here 👇
sending so much solidarity!

And practical bluesky stuff: @leedsucu.bsky.social pulled together this starter pack which allows you to follow all other ucu branches (and be followed in return, once added :))
go.bsky.app/H8xiSXj
February 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM