UCU is deeply concerned by the wrongful arrest of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, in Israel. We condemn any attempts to stifle freedom of speech on the war in Gaza and demand that diplomatic access is

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This could be your son or daughter in pretty much any UK University in the next few years.
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Some predictions I am willing to make.
1. This infrastructure will be used for drilling and extracting fossil fuels for Western companies.
2. This infrastructure will be used for colonising Gaza with Israeli-US military and settlements.
3. Very little humanitarian aid ...

In December, some students at Freie Universität organised a peaceful protest to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The university responded by calling the police on them, pressing criminal charges, and threatening them with expulsion - sounds familir, UOB? 1/3

Callously creating a hostile environment for overseas visitors and immigrants while simultaneously underfunding UK HE so that it can't survive without international students (or staff) is an act of systemic vandalism.

Lower fees, make visas easy/free.
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It would appear that University of Brighton got a head start on the panic, corruption, and incompetence...

The full statement by UCU Black Members' Standing Committee is very alarming reading. Read on after these screenshots for the details of how bureaucracy was used to silence the democratic UCU Equality committee of Black members in making their solidarity statement.

Full statement linked in Cecila's thread.

Despite longtime plans to reduce the number of offices -- you know, because of the environment and stuff -- the VC has a new plan to ensure the number of staff is far below the number of offices.

Israel has killed at least 94 Palestinian university professors in its war on Gaza.

Our members paid tribute to them today during the #StandWithGaza rally at the University of Oxford 🇵🇸

Today is the last day for PGRs to join UCU in time to receive voting papers for the current elections.

Full membership is a pound a month or free for most PGRs.

Find out how to join up at pgrs.uk/2024-01-29-PGR…

We agree Provost Hagerty! The stipend for NU Graduate Workers DOES need to remain competitive.

Sadly at the bargaining table, Northwestern offered insulting stipend proposals that cuts our pay when accounting for inflation. 🙃

If the tables/text of the PGR guide (pgrs.uk/2024-01-29-PGR…) aren't your thing, here are all four GS candidates' opening statements from a recent hustings. There's also a UK-wide hustings tomoro: register at ucu.org.uk/elections-2023…

(but remember the other elections matter too!)

📣 PGRs in HE

Really great guide to voting in upcoming UCU elections. Vital that PGRs exercise their vote as academia continues to survive from casualised labour & worsening conditions. Union leadership that fights for PGRs & staff is imperative 👇
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🚨 PGR guide to the UCU elections! 🚨

1. How PGRs can vote in the UCU elections
2. Candidates’ responses to pledges that PGR members developed
3. Which candidates signed various open letters on PGR matters

Please share far and wide esp. w/ PGRs! ✊🗳🚀

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