#RedBricks
For prospective students and parents, IMHO the order of risk in Britain's universities, from highest to lowest, is:-
*Small specialist providers
*Most Welsh unis
*Massive non-Russell Group redbricks
*Plateglass middle rankers
*Big post-92s
*Smaller 'regional' post-92s
*Massive RG redbricks. 🤷‍♂️
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Den Ball im Spiel halten.
February 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM
#BlueskyArtShow

Today's theme is #Arches

An old brick aqueduct (Nanzenji Suirokaku) in Kyoto, Japan

#EastCoastKin #Aqueduct #Kyoto #RedBricks #ArchitecturePhotography
March 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As British Higher Ed finally begins to buckle under the pressure, it'll be STEM and mid-ranking redbricks that bear the brunt. Too late to avoid now.
November 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
soon...
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August 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
we are currently looking for help for redbricks! any assistance is appreciated! the voiceacting cutoff date is june 4th, but for other roles we will announce if there is enough viable team members for redbricks. #robloxdev #roblox #robloxgame #ibispaintxart #gamedev #voiceacting
May 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Another cold commute today, glad to have winter tyres on!
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Heimweg. War ein geiler Abend mit @krise.bsky.social und Pogobär 😊
February 24, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Making my way across town
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Tories thought they'd kill ex-polys, but as predicted they'll start off by crippling 'lower' Russell Group providers and massive redbricks that have loads of foreign students and which are very expensive to run. Classic story of policy irony/ unintended consequences. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Durham and Cardiff universities to cut hundreds of jobs
The Russell Group universities, which also plan to cut courses such as nursing and music, are struggling with a funding shortfall
www.thetimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Our university being rocked by cuts today is Newcastle, where staff will now vote on strike action. It will often be these expensive redbricks where some of the most high-profile action takes place in the year to come, not in cheaper and smaller post-92s. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/strike-...
Strike ballot over multimillion-pound cuts at Newcastle
As institution puts freeze on promotions and recruitment, and invites voluntary redundancies, union says staff should not pay price for ‘financial mismanagement’
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yes - the attempt at avoiding moral hazard is just a feint. Will a UK govt really let multiple huge redbricks fail and bring down their regional economies with them? Of course not. So there'll be a bailout each time. But that also means they'll have est a precedent - maybe better to act now...
June 26, 2026 at 10:32 AM
A lot of Neanderthals in our politics and media would be very happy if everything went except Oxbridge and the Redbricks.
May 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Of course the redbricks would do this. They’re mechanisms of the imperial core.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Redbricks in #Stoke
The colour and textures of the past
@grimartgroup.bsky.social
May 23, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Remember this raging drivel? Prose vomit. It was always 100% *obvious* among those of us who told you what was about to happen that it would be some big, expensive redbricks that would go first. Wonder if he thinks Dundee and Cardiff are our 'worst universities'.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/lett...
Letting the worst universities collapse would be an act of kindness
Rising costs, stagnant tuition fees, and a big drop in foreign student enrolments have left universities on the brink of collapse
www.spectator.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM