HSE investigation concludes that the University of Birmingham doesn't have appropriate arrangements in place to manage workplace stress and was unable to demonstrate that it can manage the risks associated with excessive workload.
I'm left wondering how unique Birmingham is and how other Universities would fare in a similar investigation.
(sorry for paywalled link)
The UK HE financial crisis continues to bite down hard. I can see that Uni of Essex still employed "more than 2,644 academic, research, senior support and general support staff", so they are now experiencing what places like London Met have had to do for at least a decade. Many, many good people have lost jobs. Some have kept jobs when frankly they should not have. The game of academic FTE is really terrible imho.
#academia #academicchatter #UKHE #uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vmnq0j393o
Top 20 UK unis in most debt.
Coventry £60m
Middx £24m
Sheffield Hallam £16m
Petition request, if you can. Kiddo started a Drama degree at #UALCSM in September, and their main teaching space, the Platform Theatre, is at risk. It seems that senior management have decided to get rid of the Theatre space, without notifying the incoming students.
Risky move, of course in #UKHE environment, but maybe wider attention will help them rethink. https://www.change.org/p/save-the-platform-theatre
Does anyone in #UKHE have any tips for reading Aria "opportunity space" briefings? I've read a few and just find them very hard to know how to engage with
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