If this works, and SkyFeed keeps playing up, I might try to transfer all my feeds over there too if people are happy with that. #MetaSci#PhilSci#Psychology#CogSci#DevPsyc#SocialPsyc#PhDSky#UKUnis
UK University Funding Crisis 245 employees 'at risk' of redundancy at the University of Staffordshire #UKUnis#HigherEd#AcademicSky
40 workers are set to go
76 redundancies on the cards at the University of Sunderland #UKUnis#HigherEd#AcademicSky
A freeze on home student fees and declining international student numbers are some reasons as to why the university is making staff cuts
QMU Wage Deduction Tribunal "UCU members have long called on the union to test the legality of wage deductions in court. The case, being led by the co-chair of the UCU Queen Mary branch, Zara Dinnen, is thought to be the first such challenge in the UK." #UKUnis#HigherEd#AcademicSky
Academics whose pay was deducted for taking part in marking and assessment boycott begin legal case
UK University Wage Theft Tribunal "The claims both involve deductions of 50+ days of wages, over ÂŁ10,000 pounds, from UCU members who withdrew a few hours of work during a lawful national dispute over pay, inequality and working conditions in universities." #UKUnis#EduSky#HigherEd#AcademicSky
UK universities will attempt to detect dark matter by measuring how subatomic particles interact with the worldâs largest tank of liquid xenon deep underground. âď¸ đ§Ş #UKUnis@kcl.ac.uk
Physicists from King's are working with universities across the UK to build an advanced dark matter detector ten times the size of the previous record holder.
âStudents are treated like consumers, and the universities have benefited massively from that, so they canât really complain when students act like consumers and donât accept these kinds of changes to their contracts which diminish quality and limit the scope of their learningâ #AcademicSky#UKUnis
Goldsmiths and Chichester cases could be start of rising tide of court challenges from aggrieved students, lawyers say
"Closing a chemistry department is like demolishing the middle house in a terrace, as the ripple effects will extend to other STEM departments and in turn undermine the UKâs long-term scientific ambitions." #ChemSky#UKUnis#AcademicSky âď¸ đ§Ş
Courses are facing the axe at Aston University and the University of Hull, with others struggling
Push for Preprints "Scientists supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants should be required to release their research as a preprint rather than receiving additional money to publish it open access, according to a report." #AcWri#AcademicSky#MetaSci#UKUnis
Forcing UKRI-backed researchers to publish their papers as preprints would save ÂŁ40 million annually and âaccelerate scientific progressâ, says thinktank
The Australian government's cap on international students may help boost numbers in the UK following the UK government's ban on international students bringing family members with them. #UKUnis#EduSky#HigherEd#AcademicSkywww.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-35...
