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Alexander Hay

A very relevant online lecture, featuring #LSE academic Professor Sonia Livingstone. It takes place on 13/11/2024. Time: 18:00 GMT. Free to attend, but book your place first!

"Can young children benefit from using #DigitalTechnology or is it time for a ban?

"... This will be a hybrid event, held at #UEA and livestreamed... We look forward to welcoming you either in person or virtually to... an exciting and timely discussion..."

forms.office.com/pages/respons

forms.office.comMicrosoft Forms
#News#UK#Web
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Juggling With Eggs

So tonight I went to the #Norwich South hustings at #UEA.

Sadly Clive Lewis, current #Labour MP was a no show…they sent the local Labour councillor instead, who struggled to get from one end of a sentence to the other.

#Green Party candidate Jamie Osborn was very strong and well received…particularly on rent reforms, #Trans and #Non-binary rights and #Retrofit.

The #LibDem Sean Bennett was really solid and did well on #NHS and #EU…but crowd not receptive.

So what about Tory and Reform…

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UCU

UCU members at the University of East Anglia will strike tomorrow over the continued threat of redundancy faced by more than 100 staff. Cuts are being forced through due to a multi-million pound deficit.

At a recent all-staff meeting in the arts & humanities department the vice-chancellor admitted that efforts to close the deficit have already led to 400 jobs being axed, accounting for over 10% of UEA's former workforce.

ucu.org.uk/article/13073/Staff

www.ucu.org.ukStaff to strike tomorrow at University of East Anglia over mass redundancy threatUCU members at the University of East Anglia will strike tomorrow over the continued threat of redundancy faced by more than 100 staff.
#UCU#NoRedundancies#Solidarity
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meisterluk

I received the 1378 (4) issue of the UEA (Universala Esperanto-Asocio) magazine “Esperanto”. UEA is the largest association to my knowledge. The final page shows the official membership numbers of 2022. Looking at the absolute values of 1411 for China, 869 for Germany, and 975 for Japan, I wondered about the numbers in relation to registered nationals.

I collected all membership numbers of countries with more than 50 members. 50 seems to be an acceptable threshold. Then I extracted the population count from the English Wikipedia. Often the Wikipedia page of a country does not provide census data from 2022. If so, I used the closest approximated values (e.g. those of 2023). In the figure, the x-axis is provided in percent.

In conclusion, Luxemburg, Latvia, Slovenia, Lithuania, and Cuba are countries with a large ratio of UEA members. Even though the absolute numbers of China were leading, in practice the proportion is rather small and Cuba or Burundi win.

The ratio of UEA members per country is divided by the number of inhabitants of that country. The x-axis is the percentage of UEA members. The y-axis gives a country. The graphic shows the Luxemburg has the largest ratio of UEA members.
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Jennifer Moore 😷

Researchers estimate the wonder of #libraries in financial terms!

"Libraries in England generate at least £3.4bn in value a year through services supporting children’s literacy, digital inclusion and health, a study has found.

"Researchers at the University of East Anglia discovered that the services that a typical branch provides in a year are worth £1m, and that libraries’ value could equate to six times their running costs."

theguardian.com/books/2023/jul

The GuardianStudy finds English libraries generate at least £3.4bn in yearly value By Ella Creamer
#England#UK#funding
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Juggling With Eggs

As a mum of twins on a low income whose partner is a librarian, I have spent years telling anyone who will listen of the huge social and health value that libraries bring to communities beyond being a building full of books.

It’s great to see that finally financially quantified…and a bit proud it’s #UEA in #Norwich carrying out this research!

#SaveOurLibraries
#LibrariesRule

theguardian.com/books/2023/jul

The GuardianStudy finds English libraries generate at least £3.4bn in yearly value By Ella Creamer
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Rachel Ward

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Open letter from "current and former students of the University of East Anglia, as well as members of the broader literary community" to protest about cuts to arts and humanities - please consider signing and sharing!

Google DocsOpen Letter to University of East Anglia For the attention of David Maguire, Sally Howes, members of University Council, and all it may concern: We write to you as current and former students of the University of East Anglia, as well as members of the broader literary community, to express our objection to the university’s forthcoming cuts to the humanities. In an announcement on 21st June, we were told that 31 of 36 proposed academic redundancies at the university would fall on the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Media attention has focused on the UEA creative writing course and its famous alumni, but the university more widely is at risk from deep cuts. American Studies, a department of 16 staff, is threatened to be halved in size to just eight. Thirty-eight cleaning staff will be made redundant, further diminishing the UEA’s offering to students and staff. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities have been told to cut £1,605,000 from their budgets, but alternatives have not been adequately explored. If UEA’s 56 highest-paid members of staff were to agree to a salary cap of £100,000, the university would save at least £1,715,000. This and other potential savings have not been seriously engaged with. When Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson established the creative writing programme in 1970, they sought to foster and bring together new writers specifically within the environment of a thriving Arts and Humanities faculty. The achievements of its staff and students has been rightly emphasised by UEA, and served to establish it as a destination for writers around the world. Regardless of whether the creative writing course itself is subject to cuts, we, the undersigned, wish to emphasise that an academic community is more than the sum of its parts. UEA’s writers depend on readers, scholars, and professional services staff to succeed. Likewise the course’s continual draw benefits the city of Norwich, recognised as a UNESCO City of Literature: an association that also favours the university. For UEA to point to its world-renowned creative writing programme with one hand, while diminishing programmes that engage with literature and the arts on the other, undermines its commitment to the humanities. Another way is possible. Because of its renowned status in the literary world, UEA uniquely stands to gain from choosing to protect and even invest in its Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This would be a bold display of commitment to these disciplines at a time when every other institution is shying away from doing so, and build on the stellar reputation its lecturers, scholars, staff and alumni have created. Yours sincerely,
#UEA#saveUEA#LiteraryTranslation
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