Sat.Feb 11, 2023

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‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis

The Guardian Higher Education

Black Mountains College in Wales aims to prepare students for life during a planetary emergency The lecture theatre was once a cowshed, the study centre is an old farmhouse living room and the classrooms are mostly outdoors: welcome to the newest higher educational college in Britain. The former farm that is Black Mountains College campus is a core part of an insurgent institution that is the first entirely dedicated to adapting to the climate emergency.

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UC academic workers won big raises in their new contracts. How will the university pay? - MAYA MILLER, Sacramento Bee

Ray Schroeder

The total cost of increased salaries and benefits across the 10-campus system, the UC Office of the President estimates, ranges from $500 million to $570 million. Individual campuses have tallied their own estimates. For instance, the UC Davis office of finance anticipates the increased salaries and benefits will range from $77 million to $95 million over the life of the contracts.

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Gillian Keegan at odds with Home Office plan to restrict overseas students

The Guardian Higher Education

Education secretary says UK ‘should be very proud of’ university sector, amid briefings with Suella Braverman Gillian Keegan has signalled that she disagrees with the Home Office’s plan to cut migration by targeting overseas students, adding the financial boost from international students to British universities was “hugely valuable”. The education secretary has said the university sector is something Britain “should be very proud of”, amid briefings that the home secretary, Suella Braverman, is

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CUNY Is the People’s University. Austerity Is Killing It. - SUSAN KANG, Jacobin

Ray Schroeder

CUNY has been a public good that makes a good life possible for so many New Yorkers. As the PSC proudly states, “Everyone loves someone at CUNY.” But the shape of the CUNY system today is the result of struggle. It has suffered many setbacks in the past — and faces a politically hostile budget environment today.

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