Statutory maternity pay — which not everyone is even eligible to claim — is significantly less than minimum wage. It’s £700ish a month. It’s NOTHING.
I really do wonder what will happen to REF 2029. The worse the situation gets without any real state intervention the more REF will just be ignored by the bulk of universities. Bureaucrats and managers gaming for REF 2029 feels like fiddling while Rome burns.
Media in a 'use photo of any other university than Oxford and Cambridge to illustrate story about university sector' challenge...
So Zuckerberg sucks and his 'value' comments are a symptom of that but also need to bear in mind the man probably has no real understanding of value, he was a rich kid who then won an insane lottery jackpot, he's that arrested development meme times a billion
Yeah, I'm sure it can get worse but being worried about escalation at this point is a little ridiculous, it has escalated.
What the hell is wrong with this man? amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...
Been rereading David Harvey's history of neoliberalism (2005) and boy is it astonishing how much of the last 20 years he foresaw, including arguably Trump and MAGA...
Sorry Evri (Hermes in old money) but an email with the subject "we've got your parcel" just feels like you're holding it hostage, and yeah it very much is because it's you.