Always ask *for whom* when someone calls a period a 'Golden Age'. theconversation.com/university-fin…

🚨BREAKING: Labour is set to repeal both the Minimum Service Levels and the 2016 Trade Union Act. The Tories brought these laws in to ban workers from defending jobs, pay and conditions. This legislation wouldn't be out of place under a dictatorship - good riddance.

Tweeting the wise words of a former Vice-Chancellor, not something we had on our bingo card this week, but here we are:

UCU Solidarity Movement organising meeting Join us to organise solidarity for strikes and disputes and defending education under Starmer 🗓️ Wednesday 21 August ⏰6pm Online on Zoom Register 👉🏽 bit.ly/UCUSM_org

SURVEY! The brilliant people Open University UCU are seeking input from across the sector on the current state of redundancies: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Please help out, it doesn't take long but will be key in getting a sense of the impact of the shrinking of HE and how this has been handled

Open University UCU is conducting an important survey on redundancies. If you know of any redundancies at your current or former employer, please share what information you can via this form before 25th September: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Open University UCU

Prof. Pragya Agarwal mainly elsewhere now 15 year old Shamima Begum a girl from East London was groomed and trafficked . No concern for her . Instead she was stripped of her citizenship and abandoned. Go figure.

Arts funding

Full solidarity with our Fire Brigades Union comrades ✊ Thoughts are with all those impacted and involved.

Nothing to do with league tables, of course

As we get ever closer to Welcome Week we hope everyone has had an opportunity to rest and take time away from working. Let's also hope that the new academic year is a little quieter and more 'normal' than we've had for a while.

How did our universities get into this total and utter mess? Number four: academic and professional services labour has been seen as a free resource for years, and now the whole atmosphere has become toxic: voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

“Energised and inspired to kick off another academic semester!”

THERES ALWAYS SOMETHING