"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.
“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."
As students' costs to attend #university continue to spiral, one might conclude that this was all part of a plan to make #highereducation unaffordable for the children from poorer families...
Not so much 'widening participation' as 'narrowing participation'.
Its almost like the Govt. was suspicious of an educated electorate?
Dear UK #Students, get yourselves on the #ElectoralRoll right now as you will be at home in July. Tell you families, tell your neighbours, tell your friends.
And here's a piece I wrote on why universities are reluctant to run their own Mastodon servers (recently updated with information on referrer tracking and social media platform support)
Some of you are aware of the ongoing TA #strike at #McGill, and it pains me to see the administration is succeeding in actively dividing undergraduates, graduate #students, and #professors alike, by pushing all three to the absolute mental limit. We - and by that I mean all three above - must NOT let the administration tear the social fabric in our #university to put money before people. When the #union says "united we bargain, divided we beg," it means not just them, but everyone. 1/
Rust 101 is a #university course that introduces #rustlang to computer science students, and is available for anyone who wants to teach Rust. Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like some help setting up the course for your students!
The engineering faculty I work in used to have “Change the World” as a slogan. I never liked it and I’ve just worked out why. It’s because The World is fine. What we need to be doing is changing ourselves so that we fit in with our fully functioning life support system - Earth - learning how to work with the great planetary cycles that keep us alive rather than against them.
Maybe the new engineering slogan should be “Working out how to do better”.
👋Hi, thought I would take the time to do a little #introduction here! 👋
Hello, I’m Ella! A Science Communicator who has just handed in her Honours thesis on ‘unfurling #audience ‘. I’m most interested in #STEM + #art intersections, science accessibility, and STEM equity.
The decline in student funding is a good way to measure the collapse of a nation. My father got a grant to go to #university. I got a loan that I was able to pay back in a few years (mostly by living at home for a spell during and after my studies). Evidently this isn't an option for most, meanwhile successive governments have acted to impoverish the student body.
Not sure I can bring myself to watch this, with major redundancies at my university and others, and whole departments being closed down, because there are not enough students. The whole sector is breaking apart. I hope the series will consider this too.
Yes, your son should go, and even better if he chooses a subject like #Anthropology which is shrinking just as the world needs it more than ever #university#UK#TheCrumble
The new system of #studentloan repayments in England has (unsurprisingly) benefited rich men & women but means for others (women, the low paid), their lifetime cost of going to #university has risen.... sometimes spectacularly
As so often, #tory policy is essentially a mechanism for increasing inequality... or if you prefer a weapon in an ongoing #classwar
Curious about #university#divestment movements, I poked around student newspaper archives today. While some discussion of South Africa took place at the U. of #Toronto earlier, 1983 looks like the moment when it took off. However, this relatively well-known case wasn't the first to garner attention at UofT and other Canadian universities (notably U. of Winnipeg). That honour seems to go to Noranda, a mining company heavily involved in Pinochet's Chile. #BDS#histodons 1/ https://archive.org/details/varsity