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Vanessa Pupavac

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Author of Language Rights: From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance, & Changing European Visions of Disaster. Co-translating the works of Crnjanski & Krleža.

Nottingham Katılım Kasım 2012
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Vanessa Pupavac
Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
More damaging short-termism in UK government strategic planning over nationally critical subjects in the UK university sector - this time physics - The STFC turmoil bodes ill for UK plc as well as UK physics timeshighereducation.com/opinion/stfc-t…
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The government needs to have a national strategy to support the teaching of languages in schools and at university. The demotion of languages in secondary schools since 2004 and the parallel marketisation of HE have together undermined language studies in the UK.
Leicester UCU@leicesterucu

"The decision will make the East Midlands a "cold spot" for languages, potentially creating a "crisis" in the provision of qualified secondary school modern foreign language teachers." leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester…

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@paulinehadaway Yes the rights of citizens as active constituents of the common law well as the rights of citizens as defendants under the common law.
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Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
'What the hell is Starmer thinking?' Angry talk among charity shop workers in Sherwood today over spiralling energy prices & UK gov policy running down North Sea oil & gas production. @HelenHet20 @thephilippics @admcollingwood @redrumlisa
Helen Thompson POLIS@HelenHet20

Oil and gas are choose-your-poison for the UK: Starmer doesn't want to expand the life of the North Sea, is wed to confrontation with Russia, and is now likely to be looking to US firms to export more while simultaneously searching for ways to grandstand against Trump.

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Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
Rogey Foley's situation is urgent and heartbreaking, and requires immediate ethical professional medical and social care attention. Roger's case further demonstrates the unethical dimensions of licensing medical euthanasia, and how the voluntary became involuntary.
Families Against Involuntary Medical Euthanasia@EoLWatch

Quote.. Roger remains trapped in a situation where his health and safety are at ongoing risk. In the meantime, we need to help Roger file this urgent injunction. Thank you for your support. youtu.be/yQq5jOMIFLo?si…

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Alexandra Wilson
Alexandra Wilson@amwilson_opera·
@ianpacemain @LauraTrottMP Exactly that. Serious academic degrees in Music, History of Art, English Literature = good. Conservatoire courses in music and drama = good. Cynical courses in creative industries or musical theatre that are neither academic nor properly vocational = bad.
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Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
@richardmarcj The marketisation models of the last three decades also favoured institutional focus on larger lower cost courses and disfavoured smaller specialist courses as typify the humanities such as music or languages as we see with the culling of these subjects nationally.
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Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson@richardmarcj·
But growth in student numbers at historically strong universities does not equate to better quality education. In fact it's likely to drive down quality. Seminar sizes grow, etc. Also, the range in student abilities grows as these universities drop entry standards to recruit more
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Richard Johnson@richardmarcj·
In my view, removing the cap in student numbers was one of the worst policies of the Conservative-LibDem coalition. It led to an arms race in student recruitment, with little concern for quality of education. Universities just obsessed with growth for growth's sake. V depressing.
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell

Nothing about what would deliver the supposed 100k cut in student numbers in here, unless this is a hard commitment to introduce a cap on student numbers well below current levels. In which case they may have just accidently announced they’d close a chunk of universities

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@NicholasOShaug1 There needs to be governmental backing for critical subjects - the marketisation of higher education is unable to preserve them.
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@mpalmond Yes along with universities gutting disciplines universities will accelerate culling the books in their libraries and collections will be broken up denying access to decent academic libraries to whole regions of the country.
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Mark Almond
Mark Almond@mpalmond·
Oxford colleges have been undermining Oxford as a city of bookshops for years by rack-renting them. Now student "accommodation" becomes the case for promoting a book-free study environment. Any visitor to charity bookshops is likely to come across "de-accessed" books from college libraries - they are the lucky redundants who escaped being dumped in a skip [as happened to so much of the old History Faculty Library stock].
James Pettifer@JamesPettifer1

Yes, those like me belonging to neighbouring St Cross will feel just the same. Awfully tired of the pampering of our young people these days

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The shrinking of language studies at UK universities continues. Predictable consequence of the erosion of language studies for two decades at UK secondary schools precipitated by the government curriculum changes in 2004.
21group@21percentgroup

Voluntary severance scheme opens to all academics in the School of Humanities and the School of Modern Languages at Bristol University Very possible that in 5 years time they'll be no arts & humanities outside Oxbridge, UCL, Durham & a few others epigram.org.uk/university-of-…

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@amwilson_opera @21percentgroup UCL has the School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES). Critical for Central and Eastern languages in UK especially with the loss of languages elsewhere e.g. Russian, Slovene and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian due to close at Nottingham.
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21group@21percentgroup·
Voluntary severance scheme opens to all academics in the School of Humanities and the School of Modern Languages at Bristol University Very possible that in 5 years time they'll be no arts & humanities outside Oxbridge, UCL, Durham & a few others epigram.org.uk/university-of-…
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Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
@HelenHet20 @freddiesayers This Unherd @unherd episode is excellent with its range of geopolitical, historical and national political insights from all the contributors on the Greenland question. A compelling overview of key political dimensions packed into less than an hour. Thank you.
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Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
@HelenHet20 @_paullay The discussion was good in bringing out the international, regional and domestic dimensions of today's geopolitics.
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Vanessa Pupavac@VPupavac·
A Christmas poem and Miroslav Krleža's The Ballads at Ninety
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@cricketwyvern The government could more sensibly address the gutting of language and language-based area studies in UK universities and the demotion of language studies in secondary schools since 2004 - not reversed in its recent curriculum review.
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David Paton
David Paton@cricketwyvern·
This is an insane amount of money for the Government to spend each year on this scheme, especially at a time when UK universities are on their knees financially.
Catherine McBride OBE@CeeMacBee

The UK would be paying 16% of the EU's Erasmus scheme's total budget if we agree to Nick Thomas Symonds absurd negotiated payment. If the same number of people use the scheme as did when we were EU members, this would work out at £42,100 per participant. There are so many better ways to use £810 million, you can read about them in my substack below. I also list how much Erasmus+ money is spent on EU propaganda. All of the citations are in the Substack. open.substack.com/pub/catherinem…

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@paulinehadaway @HelenHet20 @thephilippics @admcollingwood @redrumlisa @amwilson_opera @LauraTrottMP @richardmarcj