Your regular reminder that the Teaching Excellence Framework does not in fact evaluate teaching quality, but uses a bunch of proxy metrics that have bugger all to do with teaching quality.

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Starting to think government ministers have been having regular brainstorming sessions to come up with ideas to screw Britain’s universities. Every month they find another way to harm the sector.

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Today is International Pronouns Day. Using someone's correct pronouns is an important part of respecting their identity and helping everyone feel included. At NION, we believe in respecting and celebrating people's individual identities, and treating others as we would wish to be treated 🩷

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I’m sorry, but after tens of thousands of jobs are being lost in the university sector, the government can fuck off trying to use a couple of hundred jobs being created as part of a justification for oil drilling in the North Sea. They don’t get to pretend jobs matter to them any more.

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Do come to a talk I'm chairing in Norwich Book Festival 2026. A talk with the music author Paul Sexton about his new book Rock Goes to College. It's @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social LCR, yes, in one of the very venues Paul writes about. Includes an exhibition of gig memorabilia from 6pm. Wed 28 Oct.

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