It is an honour to co-lead English Association with Elizabeth Draper Also @draperel.bsky.social💛📚📕 & Alex Thomson & to work with University English and IES. We are looking to create networks across sectors, &, with our members, to build resources, advocate & celebrate. Watch this space for news!

.Royal Historical Society has today submitted a response to REF 2029's consultation on Open Access mandates for the next research assessment: bit.ly/3VFtQgu We believe the proposals, esp. for books, 'go too far, too fast' and lack sufficient infrastructure and resources 1/3

Wait till somebody runs the numbers for how many students have #caring responsibilities. 😬 theguardian.com/education/arti…

Dinah Roe This is a really sobering story. Those of us working in HE have known for a long time the real difficulties that young people are facing, and the extraordinary efforts they make in order to pursue their degrees

#EnglishCreates ... monsters and prize-winning impact with colleagues from Classics and Reading Museum

Come & research with me beneath the blood-red skies of Durham. Projects on Arctic or mountain cultures, or on sensory studies/embodiment, are particularly welcome. Interdisciplinary work can be further supported by our brilliant institutes, including DurhamARCTIC Project & Durham Institute for Medical Humanities.

#EnglishCreates University English

Graduate Stories: Simon Rennie on creating a new sub-genre of poetry – “It changed the way I saw the world”. #EnglishCreates aah-magazine.co.uk/2024/graduate-…

Dear all, a reminder we have online recordings of our activities and access to latest resources about #decolonisation in academia, HE, FE and schools. Have look here! decolonisingthediscipline.org

Thanks very much indeed to all the colleagues who shared their experiences of restructuring today. A recording of the meeting will be available soon. In the meantime, this will make for interesting reading hepi.ac.uk/2024/07/09/lun…

A working group set up by English Association and University English says the current English GCSEs are 'increasingly narrow in content' and have become ‘too coupled with assessment’ tes.com/magazine/news/…

We‘re very pleased to be hosting this event Shakespeare’s Globe in September for English Association & University English. Well done to Dr Rebecca Fisher & Robert Eaglestone for passionately driving this much needed conference on how to significantly improve English GCSE.

See here for a new manifesto for English at all levels of the education sector, backed up University English and our colleagues: commonenglishforum.org/a-manifesto-fo…

The details of what is happening in Music at Goldsmiths are brutal. As things stand they will lose a collaborative Leverhulme Doctoral College grant (7 funded PhDs) and an AHRC grant. Staff FTE reduced by 35%. Negative impacts on curriculum and pastoral care cannot be avoided.

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths Music Department #Goldsmiths #GoldsmithsMusic @UCU Goldsmiths UCU

Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) Jennifer Richards Legacy of current GCSE English? University English English Association Time for a change

Universities UK David Amigoni Jacqui Smith University also allow people to ‘follow their passions’ University English

English graduates out there…things are changing & I’m sure teaching will be a better career as a result! Great, specialist English teachers are needed to do a job that can be one of the most rewarding ever, sharing your love of the subject! University English English Association Faculty of English

Extremely welcome news : researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res… Good to see views of University English English Association and colleagues from Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) reflected here

👇 This is really good: helpful viewing for anyone looking forward (after tomorrow) to studying English at university. University English English Association