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Universities in the UK are in financial trouble. Instead of individual cost-cutting that shrinks institutions, the sector could save billions through collective action and smarter revenue diversification.
I was made redundant 4 months ago today. Fast-forward four months: zero salary, zero job, and—rather paradoxically—a very busy diary. So what's it actually like, drifting through middle-age employment limbo with a gym membership you no longer use and a freezer full...
Calling a university's strategy its 'business model' is like calling the Royal Opera House a karaoke bar. Universities need a busyness model focused on public value, not just profit margins.
Westminster rushes to save 1,300 car jobs at Lotus but shrugs at 10,000 university redundancies. Apparently some independent organisations are more independent than others.
Artificial intelligence has catapulted from the plaything of graduate students to the digital weather system that now soaks every corner of the economy. The upsides are dazzling; the downsides, well, they're the reason you're reading this article instead of a holiday brochure....
Universities compete fiercely while claiming to collaborate generously. It's time to examine why the sector's most obvious solution—working together—remains frustratingly elusive.
When 'rightsizing' becomes the euphemism du jour for mass redundancies, you know corporate-speak has officially jumped the shark. Let's decode the jargon that's chloroforming common sense.
UK universities could save ÂŁ1.5 billion through collaboration, but pyramid politics and cultural feudalism keep them competing over stationery while students foot the bill.
Universities are built like medieval cathedrals when they should be assembled like flatpack furniture. Modular, efficient, and possible to rebuild when you inevitably lose the instructions.
Fifteen years after ministers promised that private partnerships would revolutionise British higher education, we ask: who actually made any money? Spoiler alert: nobody ends up bathing in gold coins, but at least the catering's cheaper.
A UK university cannot simply press CTRL-ALT-DELETE and vanish. Here's what actually happens when institutions reach the end of the financial road.
Universities belong to exactly the same person who owns Stonehenge and the Shipping Forecast: nobody in particular and everyone in theory. They're magnificent, slightly aloof, and impossible to sell on eBay.
Universities belong to exactly the same person who owns Stonehenge and the Shipping Forecast: nobody in particular and everyone in theory. They're magnificent, slightly aloof, and impossible to sell on eBay.
British universities have morphed into Versailles-sized palaces of PowerPoint where the managerial pyramid grows faster than academic staff. Time to flatten the hierarchy and trust the people who can actually spell phenomenology.
Universities in the UK are in financial trouble. Instead of individual cost-cutting that shrinks institutions, the sector could save billions through collective action and smarter revenue diversification.
Calling a university's strategy its 'business model' is like calling the Royal Opera House a karaoke bar. Universities need a busyness model focused on public value, not just profit margins.
Westminster rushes to save 1,300 car jobs at Lotus but shrugs at 10,000 university redundancies. Apparently some independent organisations are more independent than others.
67 UK universities have redundancy schemes running, but they're calling it 'rightsizing.' It's time to sack the euphemism and interrogate the plan.
The term 'AI slop' has become a lazy catch-all for any machine-assisted work. Here's a detailed taxonomy for more precise AI quality assessment—because clear language is the first step toward cleaner machine-made work.
After spending most of my life inside universities, I find myself on the outside looking in—and I don't plan to go back any time soon. Here's why the current state of UK higher education is pushing talent away.