This accumulating process has been obvious since at least 2021. I assumed Labour would reluctantly intervene to help. That they won't almost guarantees that UK academia will become an even more cruel/anti-intellectual place to work, even for those in RG universities. So I'm leaving.
At the start of this government there was lots of talk about ending the war on universities. But now the crude rhetoric about "ivory towers" has started up again.
Yet there are a whole bunch of things government could do to avoid a disaster without spending huge sums.
May 18, 2025 13:47
