Michelle Hunter, PhD
@shellearning68
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Affect in EMI Universities PhD
Grafenau, Deutschland
Joined June 2010
The White Male System doubling- down in the USA 😵💫 https://t.co/SE3QPQFUQu
theguardian.com
Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives
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Comments add to Zoe's points. Excellent argument.
Yesterday morning I got asked the real serious question of this election - Is the UK full?
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Share with any fence-sitters today....
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Zadie pretty much nails it with this piece. The non-Governance of avaricious scallywags has left most of the UK bereft. I'm not convinced Labour in its current iteration will improve much tho... 🫤
theguardian.com
I used to shock US audiences with my stories of Britain’s excellent, accessible universities and healthcare. Then the Conservatives ruined the country. Now real change is on the horizon
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"Political insistence that higher education must operate like a market has led to many of the worst pathologies of market societies." And uni mgmt is also culpable bcs of "hubris and greed"... 🫤 https://t.co/UkWbQebrlq
theguardian.com
The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right –...
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Check out this guest blog post on TDCI's website about BE learners reluctant to engage with soft-skills training https://t.co/dAPVg1ZAAg
#newblogpost
the-distance-cert-ibet.com
In this guest blog from a current TDCI participant, Amil expands on something he wrote about as part of one the unit submissions which caught our attention. Could it be truly the case that some...
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As a niave 20 yo female business student, I felt thrilled to have a first ever female PM... 🫣🙄😖 https://t.co/JYw4gSmkUW
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Letter says bosses appreciate Reeves’s commitment to genuine plan for economic growth
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Have you ever heard of a university withdrawing a job offer - made & accepted 2 months prior - for a lecturer position because the candidate holds a PhD? 😳
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Trapped indoors by grass pollen 🤧 Blue skies and sunshine but I can't go out. Symptoms worsen every year 😢 I need to be by the sea 🏖
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Mojo gone again. Stuck in mental limbo waiting on 2 pieces of critical news - 1/2 hourly email checking isn't helping 🫤 Wot was that thing about procrastination being about coping with neg emotions??
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If you're not going to/can't/ won't attend uni lectures, why enroll in the first place? If it's not currently financially viable, go later. Either commit or leave. Loss of std fees would soon wake up unis to address poor quality learning issues. https://t.co/rFzkeHGKiS
theguardian.com
About half the students who got in touch skip lectures, with many ‘disappointed’ with the experience and others forced to prioritise paid work
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Students of political science in coming generations will have a field day analysing the utter absurdity of many Tory gvt policies the UK has had to endure these last 14 yrs. https://t.co/h7rlXO39Od
theguardian.com
Keir Starmer says Tory plans ‘up in the air or in the bin’, with proposals to end no-fault evictions also likely to be dropped
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Freedom of speech degraded by "subtle policy changes presented in the name of ‘public safety’, ‘morality’ or ‘national security’" - sounds familiar. UK at risk of being clarified as a 'restricted' country soon...? https://t.co/cvKOnf0JTL
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Sharp rise in number of people facing a crisis in freedom of speech, while authors particularly alarmed by deterioration in India under Narendra Modi
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But where does money from fees *actually* go...? If unis aim to be a business (yay for marketisation 🙄), who's responsible for managing budgets & where's the accountability for a failing business? https://t.co/B3vFch4l9K
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Vice-chancellors suggest fee rise of £2,000 to £3,500 a year, but others say that is ‘politically impossible’
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Unless that mistake is voting in a neoliberal gvt hell bent on plundering the planet for profit.... 🤨🤔🙄
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1 pos've of attending an int'l conf online = sitting down with cuppa, looking at the sky 5 mins after the closing vs. having to schlepp to airport to cross that sky homewards #PLL5 Safe travels for all leaving from Madrid 😊
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#PLL5 online presentations provide invaluable source for FL educators. Eg, want to know what makes Sts nervous about giving argumentative presentations in front of a group? Go here: https://t.co/2d1PWI9nKM & watch #5361
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Sunshine. Where did you go? I miss you 🥹 When will you return? 😎☀️
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