Penny Welch
@pennywelch2025.bsky.social
Retired university teacher and UCU activist. Co-editor of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
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Jury trials have not caused the criminal justice system crisis. Removing the right to a jury trial and has not been piloted nor thoroughly modelled
diminishing the constitutional principle of trial by jury will erode trust in our criminal justice system.
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
diminishing the constitutional principle of trial by jury will erode trust in our criminal justice system.
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
Bar leadership joint statement on jury trials
The Bar leaders met following the leak of a government memo on the response to Sir Brian Leveson's report
www.barcouncil.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Jury trials have not caused the criminal justice system crisis. Removing the right to a jury trial and has not been piloted nor thoroughly modelled
diminishing the constitutional principle of trial by jury will erode trust in our criminal justice system.
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
diminishing the constitutional principle of trial by jury will erode trust in our criminal justice system.
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-tw
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
38d.gs
December 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-tw
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When Palestinian existence is portrayed as hate.
Israel and its supporters would have you believe that just being a Palestinian is a lethal threat.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Israel and its supporters would have you believe that just being a Palestinian is a lethal threat.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
December 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When Palestinian existence is portrayed as hate.
Israel and its supporters would have you believe that just being a Palestinian is a lethal threat.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Israel and its supporters would have you believe that just being a Palestinian is a lethal threat.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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A "Labour" government awarded honours to a person who pushed through devastating redundancies of @ucu.org.uk members at his university, including redundancies that were found to be illegal at tribunal.
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
Academics made redundant by Leicester ‘unfairly dismissed’
Three business school researchers who lost their jobs after their research was seen as not meeting strategic priorities win employment case
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A "Labour" government awarded honours to a person who pushed through devastating redundancies of @ucu.org.uk members at his university, including redundancies that were found to be illegal at tribunal.
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
This is a slap in the face for the labour movement.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
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Passengers face filthy trains as DLR cleaners strike over sick pay refusal
Cleaners on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on New Year’s Eve in a dispute over company sick pay.
rmtunion.org/49e7Sq9
Cleaners on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on New Year’s Eve in a dispute over company sick pay.
rmtunion.org/49e7Sq9
Passengers face filthy trains as DLR cleaners strike over sick pay refusal
Cleaners on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on New Year’s Eve in a dispute over company sick pay.
rmtunion.org
December 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Passengers face filthy trains as DLR cleaners strike over sick pay refusal
Cleaners on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on New Year’s Eve in a dispute over company sick pay.
rmtunion.org/49e7Sq9
Cleaners on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on New Year’s Eve in a dispute over company sick pay.
rmtunion.org/49e7Sq9
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/-f-i
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/-f-i
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UN experts raise ‘grave concern’ over treatment of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers
Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UN experts raise ‘grave concern’ over treatment of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers
Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
UN experts raise ‘grave concern’ over treatment of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers
Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
💫 The Employment Rights Act is now law. This Christmas, let’s celebrate how far we’ve come - and recommit to working together in 2026 for fair pay, stronger unions, and Labour’s New Deal delivered in full.
December 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
💫 The Employment Rights Act is now law. This Christmas, let’s celebrate how far we’ve come - and recommit to working together in 2026 for fair pay, stronger unions, and Labour’s New Deal delivered in full.
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RMT to demonstrate against Driver Only Operation on East West Rail in New Year
Rail union RMT, will stage a demonstration at 9am on Monday 5 January outside Marylebone station in opposition to plans to introduce Driver Only Operation (DOO) on the new East West Rail line.
rmtunion.org/49qgds7
Rail union RMT, will stage a demonstration at 9am on Monday 5 January outside Marylebone station in opposition to plans to introduce Driver Only Operation (DOO) on the new East West Rail line.
rmtunion.org/49qgds7
RMT to demonstrate against Driver Only Operation on East West Rail in New Year
Rail union RMT, will stage a demonstration at 9am on Monday 5 January outside Marylebone station in opposition to plans to introduce Driver Only Operation (DOO) on the new East West Rail line.
rmtunion.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
RMT to demonstrate against Driver Only Operation on East West Rail in New Year
Rail union RMT, will stage a demonstration at 9am on Monday 5 January outside Marylebone station in opposition to plans to introduce Driver Only Operation (DOO) on the new East West Rail line.
rmtunion.org/49qgds7
Rail union RMT, will stage a demonstration at 9am on Monday 5 January outside Marylebone station in opposition to plans to introduce Driver Only Operation (DOO) on the new East West Rail line.
rmtunion.org/49qgds7
Sheffield University senior management are now threatening teaching staff with losing 100% of their pay if they do not reschedule and teach the classes that they did not teach while on strike. Petition in support of the teaching staff here
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
www.megaphone.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sheffield University senior management are now threatening teaching staff with losing 100% of their pay if they do not reschedule and teach the classes that they did not teach while on strike. Petition in support of the teaching staff here
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Imprisoned activists associated with Palestine Action are hunger striking over the cruel conditions of their detention. Their health has been declining, several are at risk of death. Demand David Lammy takes action to uphold their human rights. palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerS...
Demand David Lammy act now to preserve the lives of the hunger strikers
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Imprisoned activists associated with Palestine Action are hunger striking over the cruel conditions of their detention. Their health has been declining, several are at risk of death. Demand David Lammy takes action to uphold their human rights. palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerS...
Palestine protesters on hunger strike are days from death. @DavidLammy must urgently intervene and prevent unnecessary deaths. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Save protesters at risk of imminent death
David Lammy must intervene now or they will die. Two Palestine Action protesters haven't eaten for 46 days.
secure.avaaz.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Palestine protesters on hunger strike are days from death. @DavidLammy must urgently intervene and prevent unnecessary deaths. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them.
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
www.theferret.scot
November 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them.
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
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Well done to @qmucu.bsky.social for speaking truth about the implosion of the UK HE sector. Too many people are in denial. There are no jobs for us newbies and now they're coming for those fortunate enough to be established. Read this list of the ongoing cut and closures
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.
qmucu.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Well done to @qmucu.bsky.social for speaking truth about the implosion of the UK HE sector. Too many people are in denial. There are no jobs for us newbies and now they're coming for those fortunate enough to be established. Read this list of the ongoing cut and closures
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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"Of the 1,022 members of the university community who took part in the vote, 983 (96.2 per cent) voted that they have “No Confidence” in Professor Canagarajah. Meanwhile, 39 (3.8 per cent) expressed confidence in his leadership."
www.leicester.news/leicester-un...
www.leicester.news/leicester-un...
Leicester university vice chancellor loses vote of no confidence
96.2 per cent vote that they have no confidence amid mass sackings
www.leicester.news
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Of the 1,022 members of the university community who took part in the vote, 983 (96.2 per cent) voted that they have “No Confidence” in Professor Canagarajah. Meanwhile, 39 (3.8 per cent) expressed confidence in his leadership."
www.leicester.news/leicester-un...
www.leicester.news/leicester-un...
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BTP funding package will lead to job cuts
RMT has slammed today’s decision by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) to back a three-year funding deal that will leave BTP facing frontline cuts and creating a less safe railway.
rmtunion.org/48QwBkh
RMT has slammed today’s decision by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) to back a three-year funding deal that will leave BTP facing frontline cuts and creating a less safe railway.
rmtunion.org/48QwBkh
BTP funding package will lead to job cuts
RMT has slammed today’s decision by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) to back a three-year funding deal that will leave BTP facing frontline cuts and creating a less safe railway.
rmtunion.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
BTP funding package will lead to job cuts
RMT has slammed today’s decision by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) to back a three-year funding deal that will leave BTP facing frontline cuts and creating a less safe railway.
rmtunion.org/48QwBkh
RMT has slammed today’s decision by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) to back a three-year funding deal that will leave BTP facing frontline cuts and creating a less safe railway.
rmtunion.org/48QwBkh
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VC loses confidence vote:
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
VC loses confidence vote:
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Imagine this happening to the fishing industry in a fishing town. The papers would be up in arms and screaming bloody murder.
Extrapolate this across the entire UK over the last 5 years and projected for the next 5. I think we would see 6 figure job losses in one of the UKs most lucrative sectors.
Extrapolate this across the entire UK over the last 5 years and projected for the next 5. I think we would see 6 figure job losses in one of the UKs most lucrative sectors.
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Imagine this happening to the fishing industry in a fishing town. The papers would be up in arms and screaming bloody murder.
Extrapolate this across the entire UK over the last 5 years and projected for the next 5. I think we would see 6 figure job losses in one of the UKs most lucrative sectors.
Extrapolate this across the entire UK over the last 5 years and projected for the next 5. I think we would see 6 figure job losses in one of the UKs most lucrative sectors.
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THE PARADOX OF DIFFERENCE: Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking by Neriko Musha Doerr has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/4osHzCe
#Theory #Methodology #MigrationStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/4osHzCe
#Theory #Methodology #MigrationStudies
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
THE PARADOX OF DIFFERENCE: Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking by Neriko Musha Doerr has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/4osHzCe
#Theory #Methodology #MigrationStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/4osHzCe
#Theory #Methodology #MigrationStudies
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Please sign and share to get us over 700 today: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Please sign and share to get us over 700 today: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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The newest OPEN ACCESS issue of Learning and Teaching has been published! View the TOC for this special issue entitled “Effects of the Pandemic Crisis on European Higher Education," here: bit.ly/4rPzZ7V
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December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The newest OPEN ACCESS issue of Learning and Teaching has been published! View the TOC for this special issue entitled “Effects of the Pandemic Crisis on European Higher Education," here: bit.ly/4rPzZ7V
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The DEC Middle East Humanitarian Appeal helps to provide lifesaving food, water, cash and medicine in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria. You can donate here, and your donation will be doubled by the UK government www.dec.org.uk
Disasters Emergency Committee
Conflict in the Middle East has devastated lives. The ceasefire agreement in Gaza brings hope and relief. DEC charities are now preparing to scale up their work but urgently need more funds. Your supp...
www.dec.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The DEC Middle East Humanitarian Appeal helps to provide lifesaving food, water, cash and medicine in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria. You can donate here, and your donation will be doubled by the UK government www.dec.org.uk
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University senior managers: Will negotiate with Reform. Won’t negotiate with their own staff.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
University senior managers: Will negotiate with Reform. Won’t negotiate with their own staff.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM