#Universities

🌿Steph Philip🌿

stephphilip8

SWEDEN CLOSES THEIR LAST CHINA STATE-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL "CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE" "...critics say the regime uses them to manipulate universities into parroting Chinese propaganda and intimidating anti-communist thinkers at universities&qu

Conor Duffy

conorduffynews

BREAKING: Sydney University has become the latest elite university to admit to underpayment of casual staff with about 8.8 million dollars to be repaid. The ABC has seen emails from

Jackie Lebenzon

JackieLebz

So @WesternU can you explain why you are still making us pay for our bus passes in full when LTC not only has gone free, but is reducing all their

JD Carpentieri

jdcarpentieri

I did not begin working in academia until my late 30s. One of the biggest surprises/disappointments has been the extent to which universities decouple job responsibilities from job titles/wages. It

Imogen Tyler

ProfImogenTyler

I am going to live tweet some of @GKBhambra Institute for Curriculum Enhancement, Annual Facing Out lecture and discussion 'Why decolonise the university?' Taking place this morning @LancasterUni Gurminder

ShinyGoth👻

GhostingDani

I'm NOT allowed to throw Molotov cocktails into reply-all emails anymore, so y'all are getting a thread.Digital textbooks are a scam propagated by book publishers and university admin. Book publishers,

Jonathan Malloy

JonathanMalloy

I like thinking about institutions. I have been thinking what the pandemic is showing us about institutions. 1/13 "Institution" can mean many things: a large public organization, a widely shared

n*gger chaos

ccoloredgreenss

i realized that i was reading so much my sophomore/junior of college (2016-2017) and suddenly i stopped and i couldn’t remember why. then i remembered it was cause i sold

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

There is a significant inequality in AI research according to a new paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15581 Core findings:1.Big Tech & elite universities have increased presence in top AI conf's since the rise of

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Equity withdrawn from homes was around 2% of GDP in 2019. Money laundering is estimated to be around 2-4% of GDP in Canada. Either the Liberals used a housing crisis

~irene~

irenea99

my social work professor was telling me about this and i'm surprised it's not all over my TL. universities are reeling to understand this executive order bc as it stands,

Vandana 🌈💫✍️

VandanaJayrajan

#UniversitiesOfAncientIndia In ancient times India was a centre of higher learning as it is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Most people do not really know the contribution

Dan Martin

danmartin_7

My university just published the results of over 500 phone calls to students to determine their concerns during online Covid. So amazingly helpful. Students having shipping problems w books to

Jack Peach

ThinkInPeach

Thread: Universities and Sexual Grooming1/ A lot of talk in these parts about University and its cost/benefit ratio.Regularly discussed is its role in indoctrination.But rarely do we speak about its

Dr Addy Adelaine

AddyAdelaine

1/12) I've come to the conclusion that unless @UKRI_News and the new @UKRI_CEO change, it would be kinder for research funders to say "Black people need not apply". The pain

JesseJenkins

JesseJenkins

Who has good model of test, trace, contain setup, w/ parameters such as % of pop randomly tested (to ID asymptomatic spreaders), time to test symptomatic ppl, time for test