This is beyond shameful. Solidarity with University of Glasgow Rector Ghassan Abu Sitta.

University of Glasgow management should condemn the German government and extend support to Dr Ghassan.

🚨University of Kent staff back strike action

85% YES vote🤯

VC Karen Cox looks like an arsonist trying to flee the scene - now that her resignation has been announced.

Time to cancel the cuts.

ucu.org.uk/article/13533/…

🚨GOLDSMITHS MARKING BOYCOTT 🚨

We refuse to allow management to bulldoze through these brutal cuts.

Goldsmiths now has two weeks to stop this cultural vandalism and work with us to protect its future.

Otherwise, a marking boycott begins on 19 April. Goldsmiths UCU…

We have today written to the university employer body UUK calling on them to review their UK-Israel research partnership scheme – in line with legal and ethical obligations to avoid any complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Jo Grady’s letter to Universities UK 👇

Our banner at the front of the trade union bloc on today’s 200,000 strong national demonstration ✊🇵🇸

#CeasefireNOW #StopGazaGenocide

In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

🚨March for Palestine
When: Saturday, 30 March, 12PM
Where: Russel Square, London

Last time 400,000 of you joined us as we marched for Palestine. But we cannot stop. We must continue to put pressure on our government to call for a permanent #CeasefireNOW to #StopGazaGenocide .

⚠️ University of Essex have proposed a new Academic Framework, including (among other things) a *45-week* teaching period, up to *3* entry points for students within the year, and sweeping rigid changes to module structure.

Staff are currently being 'consulted' about these proposals.

Still time to sign up!
Academic freedom & ethical scholarship in times of precarity & genocide
Join us on 21 March
With Adam Habib SOAS University of London Neve Gordon BRISMES Bashir Abu-Manneh Cambridge UCU Chris Doyle Hilary Cremin Maha Shuayb Pauline Rose
AcademicFreedom21Mar.eventbrite.co.uk

Join with us at 12.30 today outside Senate House/ Great St. Marys, Cambridge, for a rally with speakers and singing!

Cambridge UCU UCU We really appreciate your support - thank you. Don't forget our rally on Thursday!

Academic freedom & ethical scholarship in times of precarity & genocide
Join us on 21 March in person or online
Keynote by Adam Habib SOAS University of London
With Neve Gordon BRISMES Bashir Abu-Manneh Cambridge UCU Chris Doyle Hilary Cremin Maha Shuayb Pauline Rose
eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-fre…

Update on redundancies at Sheffield Hallam University - over 120 academic staff issued letters. In addition, Jo Grady has written to the Vice Chancellor about SHU's planned breach of the national and local framework agreement 1/2

It is our understanding that the students’ repeated requests to meet with representatives of the University’s senior management have so far been refused, and instead matters have been dangerously escalated by blocking entrances & threatening to involve the police.

UCU Leeds University stands in solidarity with students staging a peaceful sit-in at the Parkinson Building University of Leeds in solidarity with the situation in Gaza.

Full statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1R8…

Student Rebellion Leeds

Lack of constructive engagement is symptomatic of a wider trend of unrepresentative centralised decision making which has detrimented campus relationships. It’s time to change course, beginning with ensuring the safety of the students & constructively engaging with their demands.

We call on University of Leeds to respect the right to peaceful protest and assembly, and to constructively engage with the students’ grievances and demands, many of which are in agreement with Leeds University UCU resolutions and positions.