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#AcademicVenting 馃УThen, of course, the world-wide, very serious political onslaught on universities, already manifesting in many ways. Harvard announced last week that they were cutting their PhD programmes by 50-75% across all disciplines! This is so bad.
I dread to think what will happen to UK HE if/when Reform get in.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/
#AcademicVenting 馃УThen, of course, the world-wide, very serious political onslaught on universities, already manifesting in many ways. Harvard announced last week that they were cutting their PhD programmes by 50-75% across all disciplines! This is so bad.
I dread to think what will happen to UK HE if/when Reform get in.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/
#AcademicVenting 馃Уand then also the move to online teaching and the reuse of recorded lectures makes us lecturers rapidly redundant. Last nighr a friend told me about how she had to spend hours preparing a new online MSc - all in 6min snippets that had to comply with v strict guidelines (zero ac freedom, critical thinking); this would then be available for 5 years, no further input required from her. And then this morning I read this post by @petergleick
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