Andy Aydın-Aitchison

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EXC: Edinburgh University bosses are planning to cut 60% of jobs in the study abroad service, it has been claimed. Staff say they 'anticipate an Erasmus fiasco', leading to a 'loss of reputation in Europe and w/ our partners' @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2666368...

It just keeps happening. More cuts at Edinburgh... www.heraldscotland.com/news/2666368...

Oh wow - never thought there’d be a ray of hope from Dundee! Solidarity to all those who got out there…. cmon Edinburgh, if Dundee can do this (where there was actually a financial crisis), you can….

New Principal, compulsory redundancies paused, new scope for negotiations. Congratulations to Dundee colleagues for this hard won development. So Edinburgh, new Principal...?

In the meantime, Greenwich are looking to appoint a senior lecturer in criminology jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #AcademicChat

It is Day 18 of the UCU workers strike at Edinburgh University, in protest at the growing job cuts, the worsening conditions & the adverse impact on the students' education. All this is happening while management reward themselves with ever higher salaries. Scenes from the picket line ...

It is Day 17 of the UCU workers' strike against mass job cuts and the cuts' negative impact on the students' education. The Principal, Peter Mathieson, has finally announced he will step down in 2028, but until then, will enjoy an ever-growing salary and worsening conditions for everyone else.

It is Day 16 of the UCU workers' strike against senior management at Edinburgh University over 1000s of job cuts, worsening conditions & the inevitable fall in educational standards. All this while senior management enjoy record pay increases. While the Principal fiddles, the university burns ...

UCU have called a day of action in every University on Friday 20th November. We will be working with sister unions to ensure the biggest possible support for protests, rallies and events. This is part of our fight to protect jobs and courses as well as build solidarity across the union.

"It found UOW and five other universities appeared to overstate their financial problems and went too far in restructures and staff cuts." Actual parliamentary enquiry! Not just copy-pasting management narratives! CAN #UKHE PLEASE DO THIS NOW RATHER THA IN HINDSIGHT? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Loved this, would heartily recommend...

The Humanities at Risk: A Statement from the Scottish Society for Northern Studies The Society expresses deep concerns about ongoing university cuts to research, teaching, and engagement in Hums and Social Sciences - sounding the alarm about long-term consequences and losses to Scottish and UK HE

This article completely exposes the cruel and shortsighted cuts that are being made to creative courses at Edinburgh University and elsewhere. UCU are fighting for every working class student to have the right to create and inspire. Make a stand. news.stv.tv/east-central...

We're marking a big achievement having reached a combined total of over 10,000 memories and scrapbooks added to our community archive, Edinburgh Collected 🎉 We're grateful to all our contributors and look forward to seeing how the community archive grows over the coming years! zurl.co/LpEGw

Coasting in Aberdeenshire and Moray. Historic fishing settlements of Cullen, Portsoy and Crovie.

Care about the University of Edinburgh? Whether you are staff, student, alumni, or member of the community, consider signing this petition against the cuts, the current financial strategy, and the two University managers most responsible: qualtricsxmxhjzhm4xl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Up in Aberdeenshire, and taking the chance to visit one of the sites that inspired Stoker's vision for Castle Dracula, New Slains Castle.

Scenes from Day 14 of the UCU workers' strike at Edinburgh University, in response to 1000s of job cuts, worsening conditions, and a growing senior management bill of massive salaries and downsizing plans. (1) Student Staff Assembly vote for the Principal and Provost to immediately resign ...

Concerns about course closures to be raised at University of Edinburgh governing body next week. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2663661...

Excellent article by Juliet Jacques at Novara Media on the crisis in HE, with cuts focused on the arts and humanities. "None of this has happened by accident, given the relentless devaluation of the arts" novaramedia.com/2026/10/12/u...

Day 13 of the UCU workers' strike at Edinburgh University. The UK's HE sector is on fire. 1000s of job cuts at Edinburgh and Dundee, with more to come; Exeter, Essex, Sussex, Glasgow, Nottingham to go on strike over coming job cuts. This corporate downsizing of HE is not fine.

Day 12 of the workers' strike against worsening staff conditions at the University of Edinburgh, with the resulting deterioration of educational conditions for students. On the picket lines, staff & students share spaces, determined to resist this decline ... (1) Teach-out poetry ...

This morning, @qmanivannan.bsky.social and I joined @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on the picket line outside the Edinburgh College of Art to show our solidarity as they enter their third week of strike action.

@ucu.org.uk is organizing the fight back! A diagnosis of the broken funding model (huge public expenditure on putting students into debt) is the first step towards proposing real alternatives, and getting them on to the political agenda. (See the first UCU Briefs) educationitsours.org.uk

Day 11 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, over deteriorating conditions for staff and a resulting deterioration of educational conditions for students. All of this, while senior management awards itself with ever bigger pay increases. This is a scandal.

Completely agree with Sophia, the number of gifted academics forced to leave academia over this manufactured deficit by senior management is a scandal. The University of Edinburgh is a charity purposed for the social good, not some ruthless corporation designed to enrich those at the top.

Strike Day 11 at the University of Edinburgh: Scenes from the Picket Lines! The Scottish Green Party are here in numbers ...

In 2012-13, there were 51 UK universities offering Russian and East European Studies. In 2024-25, there were 32, and provision is shrinking further. Perhaps that's a serious security risk? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Day 10 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, over major job cuts, worsening terms & conditions, and the continued financial mismanagement of the senior leadership. Scenes from the picket lines reveal how we continue to fight. In this image, members of our UCUE leadership ...

www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive... @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

The @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social response to Peter Mathieson's "exit interview" in The Scotsman. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/mathies...

Here's something that hurts: being told your team of 28 is being cut to 11, & you have to compete for your job. Instead of inviting us to a pity party, Sir Peter could reflect on why only 6% of staff have confidence in him. Rebuilding needs meaningful consultation instead of hired consultants.

Day 8 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh against the job cuts imposed by senior management and their burgeoning salaries. Yesterday, a victory: the Principal announced he is stepping down in 2028. We must, however, change the system that elects Principals ...

... We must change our broken system in which a handful of people choose the principal from a consultancy firm shortlist. The Trinity College Dublin model is one idea: principals are elected from within, with hustings, etc. We must take back control of our higher education from the corporate world.

UCU Edinburgh is hearing alarming stories of UK universities employing strike-breaking tactics to undermine the various industrial action. The latest story by Novara Media below underscores the depths to which some senior management will stoop to maintain their ethos of profits before people ...

Despite a chilly turn in the weather, a wonderfully warm and determined @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket today. No to drastic cuts; no to compulsory redundancies! Proud to stand with a great bunch of colleagues, including over 25 from the School of Law today. 💪

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Day 13 of 25. We are now halfway through our industrial action to rule out compulsory redundancies at the University of Dundee. Join us on our picket line today for a friendly atmosphere and chat. Bake sale tomorrow too.

Day 7 of the UCU workers' strike against the job cuts and worsening conditions of staff under the current management regime. Our principal, Peter Mathieson, under whose leadership the cuts & a supposed financial black hole of £140 suddenly emerged, has announced his intention to step down in 2029.

This is an important story, less for the impact of the strike on core training, but for the national social science graduate school's concerns about current university management's actions damaging social science in Scotland. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social