Second UCUSurrey #NoCompulsoryRedundancies Open Letter Max Lu 👇

''You have not clarified the future capital plans which are deemed so essential that they warrant targeting staff''

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Why are third level campuses across the island of Ireland holding a national day of action for Palestine next Wed 17 April?

Among the many reasons:
All 12 universities in Gaza have been the target of Israeli attacks: 'It's a war against education'

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Education funding slashed, an inaccessible property ladder, gig economy contracts, exploitation & poor wages for graduates.

Tory britain is a particularly grim place for young people.

The Tories won't stop until children are back up the nation's chimneys.

Gen-Z, join a union!

Neoliberalism's oldest trick - gradually normalise the unacceptable through it's 'mainstream' propaganda mediums.

The purpose is to extract as much as it can from workers in favour of the wealthy & powerful

- proper funding of post 16 education is also affordable

A very enlightening read for those of you who don't know much about casualised jobs in UK HE. Or as some upper managers like to say 'agility' - people you can hire on casualised contracts and let go whenever there is a hint of a dip in student numbers. cheesegratermagazine.org/2024/04/08/the…

Used my members' statement at Stormont today to send condolences to the friends and family of Josip Strok, who was murdered by racist thugs in Dublin.

We need to stamp out racism and challenge all who peddle such hate.

One of many problems exposed by the existential crisis in universities is they were expected to act individually to provide collective goods. But most unis just cannot bear that burden: that's why the social democratic state stepped in during the 1960s.
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Not a good look.

Goldsmiths University sent information about redundancies to staff that contained a reference to another institution, after it copy and pasted parts of a similar document from the University of Kent and did not change the text. 🤦‍♂️

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UCL 'short-term finance-driven decision making and the university’s lack of any real interest in continuity of employment or in staff-student relations”

Student nos + casualisation= double-figure redundancies in its History Dept

Plse sign petition

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Important UCU Solidarity Movement meeting on Monday 👇

❗️Open Letter: In Solidarity with Goldsmiths University❗️
People around the world, incl' academics, artists & students are opposing Goldsmiths’ disastrous job cuts.
Open letter is now up to 3335 SIGNATORIES.
You can add your name below to #binthetp 👇

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86% of respondents reported that they have faced job losses or the threat of job losses in the last 12 months in a recent survey of Post 92 branches.

Cuts are killing post-16 education, we must fight back.

Read more about this survey here 👇

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''@UCU is determined to resist the current wave of job cuts and attacks on working conditions taking place in post-16 education throughout the UK and these campaigns are asking for your support.''

University of Surrey @UCUSurrey on this list 👇

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Watched #Defiance Fighting the Far Right ep 1. It is amazing, powerful & really important. It needs to be watched and added to the curriculum. I will definitely be using it in my module on racism and the far right next year.

Congratulations Rajesh Thind and everyone involved.

Concerns about the closure of modern languages at the University of Lincoln - Sign the Petition! chng.it/JcdbJsB67k via Change.org UK

Complain & your problems are just beginning

Victim blaming is routine in UK #universities

It is in direct conflict with the values of respect & understanding that the university claims to stand for

Many UK universities are ethically bankrupt

#academia #AcademicTwitter

'Your decision to cancel her invitation is insulting to her, to the academy, and to this university. But more importantly it is a challenge to academic freedom that is unacceptable.'

I wrote something for the The New Statesman about the crisis in university funding, and what we’re not doing about it newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

In this concise yet insightful piece, Hannah Rose Woods makes summarising the state of UK and diagnosing its problems seem almost effortless.

Good to see it all laid out so clearly, connecting the dots of staff, students, finances, policies, politics, and press.

Defend arts access. Defend arts funding. Defend arts education!

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