Exeter UCU
@exeterucu.bsky.social
Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
🚨 KEY DATES FOR THE POSTAL BALLOT 🚨 Jot them down, add them to your Google calendars, write them in flames a mile high (for any Senior Management reading this, that's a joke 😇)
And not just Exeter. At least 2 History Leicester FBAs have had to leave the University to stay in the profession due to risk of redundancy, and they won't be the only ones. The much broader issue affects thousands of excellent academics across a spectrum of disciplines (including STEM ones). 1/2
New British Academy fellows at risk in Exeter jobs cull
Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop
timeshighereducation.com
The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.
Today, Filippo de Vivo, Martin Conway, @faridahzaman.bsky.social and I, along with 30 other members of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford have written to the leadership of the University of Exeter to express our deep concern about the proposed cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences
"Humanities are being extinguished by university bosses across the country. We desperately need an emergency rescue package to stop the death-rattle of Britain's great universities." @drjogrady.bsky.social in the Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
theguardian.com
🚨🚨 E-consultation on strike action in your inboxes!! 🚨🚨 This morning you will have gotten an email from us with the subject line '#DefendExeterUni EUCU Industrial Action consultative ballot.' 💌 It is VERY IMPORTANT you vote through the link that email!! [1/3]
Missed the VC’s speech? Lucky you. Here’s the financial highlights! 1/ Confirmed Exeter uni is STILL IN SURPLUS for 25/26 2/ The top 16 execs at Exeter have a combined pay packet of nearly £4m 3/ The VC has a pay packet of nearly £400k a year 4/ Our cash reserves are going up, year on year [1/2]
Tremendous support from across various segments of our society--businesses, public figures, MPs, & even a former archbishop of Canterbury--against the UNNECESSARY cutting of humanities, arts & social sciences @exeter.ac.uk #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts
Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences
theguardian.com
We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
technosphere.earth
🚨🚨 MEMBERS MEETING TODAY AT 2PM 🚨🚨 We did it last week; we need to do it again today! Join our meeting (you will have a Teams invite in your inbox) this afternoon. This meeting is vital for getting our local industrial action mandate. The biggest weapon we have against these cuts. #DefendExeterUni
Really heartening to see lots of support over at Instagram today. 🩷 Students and alumnae are posting about their great lecturers, and @graceblakeley.substack.com just posted a video highlighting the impacts on the Southwest! 📢 We're in this together. Lets protect this great University!
Excellent educators and researchers at the University of Exeter are at risk of redundancy. c.150 job roles will be cut across Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Climate Science and more. Please share & sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... @exeterucu.bsky.social #DefendExeterUni
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
change.org
Hey Bluesky crowd! You also should be signing our petition opposing the announced redundancies at the University of Exeter. 📢 We're 17k and growing! Redundancies ARE NOT necessary and we must #DefendExeterUni 🩷 c.org/RFqMvrKb6z
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
c.org
Scenes from our VC’s climate conference talk ‼️ You can’t please all the people all the time. But as our senior management are learning if you lack a moral compass, make bad decisions and remain aloof and refuse to listen to the upset you cause, you certainly CAN alienate all the people all the time.
Nearly half of the academic staff in the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the Penryn Campus are now at risk of redundancy. Putting your world-leading staff at risk is not sustainable! 🌍🔥[1/4]
We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:
