Northumbria UCU Branch
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Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Ending superrich bosses Government subsidies and making them pay decent wages and fair share of taxes is a better way of ending poverty than cutting minimum wages or reducing worker rights "The outrageous reason employees receive benefits is they're not being paid enough" via The UK Against Hate
Every academic outside of a small inner core of universities should consider themselves permanently at risk of redundancy. The sector will operate a rolling redundancy wave from about this point on. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
‘Nuclear’ restructure at London South Bank seen as ‘test bed’
University claims its changes will protect academic jobs and strengthen teaching but striking staff say reforms pose an ‘existential’ threat
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Michael Rosen · Article in Private Eye about Goldsmiths, University of London
The Vagrancy Act 1824 was finally repealed in June this year. When Burnham was Mayor of Manchester he reduced homelessness by sharing data between authorities. But Rough Sleepers were arrested. As PM Burnham plans to end rough sleeping. We must ensure he gives them homes, not a police cell bunk.
INDIA: Unions chart strategies for youth and women leadership www.industriall-union.org/india-affili...
Youth and Women Union Leadership India: A Collective Vision - industriall-union
Explore youth and women union leadership in India and discover strategies for building inclusive and representative unions.
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Hunt: "We've grown much wealthier as a country since the 80s" 1970s Britain owned its utilities, millions of council houses, had a huge oil/gas reserve & a national debt of £80bn. Now? No assets & £2.9tn national debt We havent got richer. Jeremy & his mates have at our expense
Last week we launched a new guide to videogames writing contracts + we'll be giving out free copies at an event on 13 August at London South Bank University (7-8.30pm), hosted by WGGB Games Co-Chair @flom.bsky.social Find out more + book your free place forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Growing pressure on probationary staff to win grants represents ‘material divergence’ from agreed policies, argue UCU leaders. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #research #highered #UCU #academicsky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/research-income-targets-liverpools-new-academics-unfair
'People in Essex deserve better than this' "Reform U.K. led @Essex_CC an utter shambles. Playing with tax payer’s cash to enforce their ideology rather than serving residents. This appears to be the national blueprint." via Essex politics, planning and local democracy news
"Reform's latest attempt to gaslight knows no bounds. Asking other MP's and people to tone down the rhetoric against them, without any acceptance of poor language choices on their end or assurance they'll tone down their hate" via The UK Against Hate
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Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 3w ago@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social obviously dead chuffed that the brilliant Jill Halfpenny got an honorary degree from @northumbriauni.bsky.social. 🎭 Just a shame - a tragedy, even - the same uni is cutting Theatre and Performance... 😢 @ucu.org.uk www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2627205...
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social obviously dead chuffed that the brilliant Jill Halfpenny got an honorary degree from @northumbriauni.bsky.social. 🎭 Just a shame - a tragedy, even - the same uni is cutting Theatre and Performance... 😢 @ucu.org.uk www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2627205...
Beloved North East actress and Strictly star 'thrilled' after getting honorary degree
Award-winning actress Jill Halfpenny, who is from Gateshead, has been awarded an honorary degree from Northumbria University.
thenorthernecho.co.uk
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social obviously dead chuffed that the brilliant Jill Halfpenny got an honorary degree from @northumbriauni.bsky.social. 🎭 Just a shame - a tragedy, even - the same uni is cutting Theatre and Performance... 😢 @ucu.org.uk www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2627205...
Beloved North East actress and Strictly star 'thrilled' after getting honorary degree
Award-winning actress Jill Halfpenny, who is from Gateshead, has been awarded an honorary degree from Northumbria University.
thenorthernecho.co.uk
#GFTU #SummerSchool sends a clear message to @rockstargames.com . Stop playing games with workers rights! Solidarity to all @gameworkers.co.uk in their campaign for recognition. #StopPlayingGames #IWGB #RockStarGames
Once you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Spectator going full on ethnonationalist
Zack Polanski gets to the core of what ordinary people in Clacton think about Nigel Farage by utilising a much underused tactic that is, unfortunately, rarely seen in Westminster: the truth. #VoteGreen #VoteHope #VoteForTheTruth join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11mo agoNigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
A security detail would know where Farage was and who he was meeting at all times. I can't help thinking that might have been a factor in Farage declining the offer.
A defiant exhibition at the Wellcome Collection reflects on consumer capitalism's inability to confront the reality of ageing. Read here: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/comi... Visit tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe to subscribe to Tribune's quarterly print edition - new issue out soon!
@northumbriauni.bsky.social VC @andylong6.bsky.social said "‘doing nothing is not an option’, but it turns out...doing nothing was an option. The university has spent more than they’re going to save.” Yet mgmnt has “no plans to change” its approach." ...
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · last mo.Universities may pause major staffing changes as they are predicted to save millions, experts say, but “volatility” of the TPS means some will press on regardless. Juliette Rowsell reports https://ow.ly/U4et50Zk49i
@northumbriauni.bsky.social and @andylong6.bsky.social hitting the headlines again, for all the wrong reasons. This is a self-inflicted wound, and hard-working staff and students will wear the scars. @ucu.org.uk @ucea.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social @tucneyh.bsky.social
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 4w agoAcademics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching #highered #jobcuts #edusky https://ow.ly/VJVG50ZkBOr
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Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 4w ago@northumbriauni.bsky.social and @andylong6.bsky.social hitting the headlines again, for all the wrong reasons. This is a self-inflicted wound, and hard-working staff and students will wear the scars. @ucu.org.uk @ucea.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social @tucneyh.bsky.social
Yep, it is called punching down. To which the only response can be ✊
Mike Harrison@higheredactuary.bsky.social · last mo.There is something fundamentally flawed with how the costs of TPS are passed on to post-92 universities.
CONGRATULATIONS to all the @northumbriauni.bsky.social students graduating last week and this week. You're amazing! So are your lecturers, and they deserve not to have their pay and jobs cut. You can help them defend pay and jobs by using the QR code below...@ucu.org.uk
'It is understood that the university wants to cut 10 staff from its geography and natural sciences department, 10 from engineering, physics, and maths, and 10 from humanities and social sciences. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) are now set to be balloted again over more walkouts.'
Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 4w agoCONGRATULATIONS to all the @northumbriauni.bsky.social students graduating last week and this week. You're amazing! So are your lecturers, and they deserve not to have their pay and jobs cut. You can help them defend pay and jobs by using the QR code below...@ucu.org.uk
Matt Goodwin appears to have missed two key facts: 1) Andy Burnham was not already an MP 2) Nigel Farage was already an MP 3) Andy Burnham was not under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner and the National Crime Agency (Farage is).
