On our first workday under a new president, we want to take a moment to thank our incredible leader @lopa.bsky.social
LopaLeach
@lopa.bsky.social
Professor, Vascular Biologist, Former President British Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Society, Co-Chair Interdisciplinary Partnership on Health Inequalities and Race, Past President UoNUCU.
UK devolution must extend to its authoritarian universities www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-d...
UK devolution must extend to its authoritarian universities
Institutions whose managers are unaccountable to their staff can never be truly civic universities, says Krzysztof Nawratek
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Many more people in universities will lose their jobs if nothing changes in the way HE is (under) funded. Even more prospective students will not be able to go to university, especially here in the Norheast. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @markfergusonmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social
‘Where did they go?’: homeless people feel force of America’s brutality in World Cup clean-up
‘Where did they go?’: homeless people feel force of America’s brutality in World Cup clean-up
Fifa says football brings the world together but the unhoused in Atlanta feel targeted and completely excluded from the tournament
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Thousands of jobs, millions of young people and the future of Higher Education in the country depends on it. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @markfergusonmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social
We need real change, we expect more and better from our MPs. A proper transformation of Higher Education would end tuition fees and halt the employer’s offensive against staff and educational provision. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @markfergusonmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social
On top of that, you want to make it worse, by seeing an international fee levy at £925 per student www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
England’s international fee levy set at £925 per student - Research Professional News
Budget 2025: Government sets out details of international student fee levy, including 2028 start date
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When the fall in international student numbers ‘cost UK £2.9 billion’ so even on your own terms, the system fails www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fall-in...
Fall in international student numbers ‘cost UK £2.9 billion’
Latest cost-benefit analysis finds overseas enrolments generate nearly 10 times more money for UK than they take away
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Why, we ask, does your government insist on cutting university teaching grant by £100 million www.timeshighereducation.com/news/governm...
Government to cut university teaching grant by £100 million
Coming reduction in funding for high-cost subjects and access programmes ‘extraordinarily frustrating’, says Universities UK leader
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Just ridiculous. Shall we all just give up doing fundamental research?Coz, I fear UK bosses may ape this...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoIs the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky
All Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages urges University of Nottingham “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” plans to close modern language courses www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cold-sp... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts
Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider
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Nottingham isn't just cutting courses, it's threatening to wipe out modern languages degrees across the whole East Midlands. MPs have warned the plans would devastate regional skills, teacher training and opportunities for thousands of young people. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cold-sp...
‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts
Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider
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🙏. @julietterowsell.bsky.social for reporting on this hugely important issue. @ucu.org.uk ‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cold-sp...
‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts
Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider
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We voted on the offer, this time through a simple online survey. Again, it was overly rejected (87% voted no). We also provided a space in the survey for members to comment on the offer. Here is a word cloud of their responses.
So management came to us last week with an offer to end the boycott. It increased buy outs for VR, extended the VR time, and offered to pay back some of the pay they stole from those participating in IA.
Solidarity works! Colleagues in History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) at Newcastle have raised £586 for the UCU Nottingham fighting fund in support of members taking strike action against compulsory redundancies. The collection was organised in recognition that what happens at one
There's a very real and obvious unfairness here that the Guardian article overlooks. Students who start off as undergrads on 4 year degree courses don't have to take a post-grad loan, but do get a masters. Students who do a bachelors degree and a separate masters are saddled with punitive debts.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.‘Basically you’re trapped’: UK postgraduates burdened with double loan debt
I could not have been more honoured than to be asked to do this. Agnes had such a huge impact on so many people in Nottingham. She would be horrified to see what’s happening to the institution she worked so hard for.
University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · last mo."Winning is getting employers to say yes when they want to say no" A massive thank you to @howardstevenson.bsky.social for his wonderful (and wonderfully timely) talk at yesterday's Agnes Flues lecture. The perfect jolt of energy for our ongoing industrial action!
More clear evidence that the community has our back: city council and members of parliament have joined our president to craft this important joint appeal condemning the horrific financial strategy that our administration continues force on the university.
@uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk Marking boycotters face heavy sanctions as assessments disrupted www.timeshighereducation.com/news/marking...
Marking boycotters face heavy sanctions as assessments disrupted
Edinburgh extends pay deductions to those who refuse to cover for colleagues taking part in industrial action
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Proud of the trade union movement and Scotland for turning out in huge numbers to oppose the far right, to reclaim the streets, and say refugees are welcome here. Nae Pasaran
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Striking University of Nottingham staff demand cuts U-turn www.timeshighereducation.com/news/strikin...
Striking University of Nottingham staff demand cuts U-turn
UCU general secretary tells Times Higher Education that university risks being changed ‘beyond recognition’ if 600 job losses go ahead
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UCU general secretary says university risks being changed ‘beyond recognition’ if 600 job losses go ahead
Striking University of Nottingham staff demand cuts U-turn
UCU general secretary tells Times Higher Education that university risks being changed ‘beyond recognition’ if 600 job losses go ahead
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