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Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:48 JST Pauline von Hellermann
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#AcademicVenting Please read this wonderful piece by Goldsmiths Emeritus Professor Angela McRobbie, capturing why we all weep and weep at what is happening at Goldsmiths now. It was and is something so important: brilliant arts, research, critical thinking in a very non-elite setting, for and by non-elite students. It is so important we don't lose all this. But read the piece.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-goldsmiths-diary
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  These are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and social sciences that are affected, a consequence of their downgrading in recent years. The frequency with which common-sense
- Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:49 JST Pauline von Hellermann
  
  #AcademicVenting I don’t know how many of you have children who are about to go to university, but if you do: it might be time to mobilise!
  
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