Campaign for Reasonable Academic Workloads @RWorkloads
Campaign for Reasonable Academic Staff Workloads in UK HE || positive but critical || #AcademicWorkload || **Campaign Closed 14Nov2024** ReasonableAcademicWorkloads.uk Joined December 2020-
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This is an absolutely wonderful balanced thread. Read it all if you are an academic.
This is an absolutely wonderful balanced thread. Read it all if you are an academic.
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Campaign for Reasonable Academic Workloads retweeted
This is a good thread on working in HE at the moment.
This is a good thread on working in HE at the moment.
Campaign for Reasonable Academic Workloads retweeted
Fantastic thread and applies just as much to Australia
Fantastic thread and applies just as much to Australia
Campaign for Reasonable Academic Workloads retweeted
Twitter is dying, and I am winding this campaign down. Some thoughts as I leave, from both my view of the public situation and all the DMs I've been sent. 1/

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