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The Guardian view on universities: arts cuts are the tip of an iceberg | Editorial

The Guardian - Higher Education

Ministers are ultimately responsible for weakening the arts and humanities. They are taking the country backwards The announcement that the University of East Anglia is to cut 31 arts and humanities posts – out of a total of 36 academic job cuts – has rightly prompted anger as well as dismay.

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Why PeopleAdmin? Ann Robinson, Montana State University

PeopleAdmin

Ann Robinson, Human Resources Systems Administrator at Montana State University , manages the PeopleAdmin platform across four different MSU campuses: Montana State University, MSU Billings, MSU Northern, and Great Falls College. Why PeopleAdmin?

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Cardiff Metropolitan University becomes first UK higher education institution to pledge no investments in border violence

HEPI

According to this research, an estimated £327 million of university investment portfolios was invested in the arms, detention, surveillance, and other related industries involved in human rights abuses against migrants at borders in the UK and Europe.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

However, I would caution against an assumption that because universities managed to stay operational while fully remote, it is something to pursue post-pandemic. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

A disturbing video of her being forcibly removed from the university-managed apartment spread on social media. Wheeler had earlier been suspended from the campus after being accused of assaulting another student and later cleared of the allegation during a student conduct hearing.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

SRHE

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.

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The Return of Bad Arguments for the Humanities

HESA

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.