Our members continue to face wildly disproportionate deductions from #sussexuni . We demand ALL our deductions are returned.

To anyone at Sussex who is not MABbing please consider donating to our fighting fund. Our members need your help!

#ucuRISING
ucusussex.org.uk/donate

An exciting, new, genuinely inter-disciplinary, transatlantic initiative for those working on historical IR, international, diplomatic, and contemporary history. Please spread far and wide!

This article on the 'manufacturing delusion' in The Economist gets some things right but many things wrong.

Here's a thread on what I see as the shortcomings of the article. I'm using a lot of evidence from my book, The Future of the Factory, which I'll link in at the end. /1

🧵 Just published!
In my article for Global Political Economy Journal Bristol Uni Press on the making of the Single European Act I propose a new approach to foreign policy formation from an International Historical Sociology perspective that considers the supranational sphere.

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

I ❤️ Sussex Global students! This is smart, good humoured and confident - glorious!

UCU Brian Patton For anyone interested in what we were handing our Vice Chancellor, it was a simple reminder …

Thank you to all the students who came together to both celebrate our studies and demand more from University of Sussex

CSIS has published a full English translation of the new Japanese export controls on advanced semiconductor technology. You can't find this anywhere else! They go into effect July 23, 2023
csis.org/analysis/csis-…

Amazing✊

Students have stood with us every step of the way, and we are so grateful ❤️

They know, and we know, that the bosses can end this dispute tomorrow

#ucuRISING

Yet more evidence that the UK Higher Education sector is broken. It has been failing for years, hidden by a mountain of lovely new buildings, obsessive metrics and league tables. Root and branch changes needed with education at the centre.

legit crying right now, what an honour to know these students

Today University of Exeter joined the list of HEIs that have called for the resumption of talks between @UCU and UCEA.

The effects of the significant Exeter UCU branch participation in the MAB became clear during the exam boards last week. 1/3

Punitive Deductions at Sussex.

The truth about continuous 25% deductions for the marking and assessment boycott. Not fair, not proportionate, not kind, not reasonable.

[University of Sussex deductions marked in orange]

Snapshots from our PhD social at Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿. Truly great to be among so many friends/colleagues. So lucky to have such an amazing doctoral community! Sussex IR🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Geography🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Geert De Neve Julian Germann Alistair Markland Tanja Weis Maziar Tom Cowin

BREAKING: Students not progressing at Durham whilst management refuse to sign joint statement calling for negotiations.

At four preliminary boards examiners that happened today, hundreds of students did not progress to their next year of study.

Pleased to be in the new Global Political Economy Journal! My article looks at how geopolitics has shaped Chinese capitalism since the Mao period. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

I’ve signed this 👇 please all Sussex UCU and UCU folks do the same! Cross-institution solidarity. Exam board season is upon us. Let’s protect our students as our institutions try to pretend nothing is happening while handing out worthless bits of paper as degrees

📢 open letter re the proposed redundancies at University of Brighton 📢

ucusussex.org.uk/post/open-lett…

Brighton UCU Brighton Humanities Against Cuts Sussex UCU

🚨NEW🚨

Queen's University Belfast has called on UCEA to settle the dispute

Well done to everyone at UCU at Queen's💪

UCEA needs to start listening to its member institutions‼️

#ucuRISING

... counter-productive 1) confirming grievances against our employer, 2) likely increasing participation, and 3) lots of impacts of other activity. If I participate I will be copying The University of Sheffield into all my correspondence w int'l collaborators, funders, journals ... 2/