Workloads should be written based on how long it takes junior colleagues to do things, NOT how long it takes seasoned staff. They 100% shouldn't be compiled based on guesswork by those who've never designed a course, taught, marked assignments, supervised, written a bid etc etc.

Thread on the DfE political impartiality in schools guidance 🧵 The guidance states that "When teaching pupils about racism, teachers should be clear that racism has no place in our society and help pupils to understand facts about this and the law."

Reading the news coverage of the @UCU #FourFights strike, I get the impression that many people don’t know what University lecturers do (and why would they?), so here’s a thread on it. I’m a psychologist, so let’s start with the work of the average psychology lecturer. 🧵👇1/18

Watching universities celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2022

Good day for critical higher education research - 3 outstanding articles published in one day! Congratulations to Hans Schildermans Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti 🇵🇸 Richard Hall 🇵🇸 Sol Gamsu Rajvir Gill

Once again delighted to be filling in a work allocation model that assumes 1 hour of classroom teaching requires only 1 hour of preparation. Guess I won't be reading any new research, learning new skills or updating much for next year, huh.

I tell you, the Minister is not going to like this: link.springer.com/article/10.100… more importantly I'm irritated that I couldn't include these assertions in our bit on policy. still Rajvir Gill Sol Gamsu you are "part of the small cabal of the intolerant." #highereducation

1. De Montfort UCU recognises the devastation felt by members affected by the VC's formal announcement of a new programme of restructuring, which includes the prospect of compulsory redundancies for 58 roles.

Fixed-term Lecturer in Education dmuleicester tinyurl.com/yckr76x2 closing date 15 September 2022

‘Protesting’ with full face masks/covered faces so you cannot be identified is not with intentions to protest. It’s to riot #Leicester

A reminder to fellow UCU members to vote today or by Monday if possible. This is our last chance, absolutely our last chance, to save British higher education. to fail to do so will be a generational blunder we will not be forgiven for. #ucuRising

Congratulations and brilliant work. 👏🏽Proud to have contributed to this book with a chapter on Understanding Identity and Positionality through staff/student interactions 😊 thank you Mark Pulsford !

Little ones next reading book #understandingeducationatudies 😄start them early… with my first book chapter! 🥹 thank you to Mark Pulsford BeckyM @rmpbedford #educationstudies

We really must see this for what it is: the universities have conceded that we are correct about workloads, since this is the only level of feedback one can produce under the time tariffs given to make papers.

our Palgrave Education International Handbook of Marxism and Education is out link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

One year since publication day! Seems to be pretty popular and, if anything, the chapters improve with age... Dr Tristan Middleton - Its cool to care 💙 Gurpinder Lalli Charlotte Barrow Ted Fleming Dr Heather Knight Rajvir Gill Dr Alexandra Hay Rafael Mitchell @AbdullahDaya2 BeckyM Warwick Education Studies British Education Studies Association

"Broken English" in *Salt* (2017) by Nayyira Waheed