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Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · Mar 18, 2024
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 13/n and i have to mention UK universities too, since I am directly affected myself (see #AcademicVenting). 40% of UK universities are in debt, with major reduncancies right now (incl at Goldsmiths). All in arts, humanities and social sciences. All of this is crumbling, with too little money flowing into it. Another industry, another #CommonGood being eroded. Check out this constantly updated tally. #TheCrumble https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/
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Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · Apr 30, 2024
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 29/n Another overlap with #AcademicVenting 🧵- because it’s all of a piece! Because the crisis in HE is a key phenomenon in all this! This great piece by Jessica Wildfire really needs to be read in full, but this extract most apt here: “Universities aren't institutions of knowledge anymore. They're assets. They're revenue streams. If they're not generating money for the top, then they only pose a threat, and they have to be weakened and destroyed.” https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112359018143961300
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Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · May 09, 2024
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵34/n #ClimateDiary We had a veg box for 12 years from Hankham Organics; 3 weeks ago we suddenly had a note with our box that they were closing, as it wasn’t working financially any more. 😢😢😢 And a fish merchant who we got smoked salmon for Christmas from closed this year too, for the same reasons. Plus Goldsmiths’ woes of course (#AcademicVenting). So many good, small organisations struggling and ending.
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Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · May 09, 2024
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#FollowTheMoney 35/n #ClimateDiary #AcademicVenting This is why: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/112408392604056154
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Pauline von Hellermann @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · Nov 15, 2024
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 41/n Ok so the reason for the long pause in this 🧵 was being made rdundant in July, by my lovely (not) employer of 13 years, Goldsmiths University. You can read all about it in this long #AcademicVenting 🧵, tracing the whole sorry saga from first rumblings in Nov ‘23 to the bitter end. But of course, #redundancy is all about money, and I think about money all the time now (I have to), so really should write it about it all here a bit https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111563234050886278
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