During the summer we (a) do the research that gets measured in REF (b) supervise masters and PhD students (c) catch up with teaching prep (d) attend conferences. We aren’t spending three months on a beach and THE knows what culture war it’s stoking by doing this.

Every announcement of a Voluntary Severance Scheme is copying from the same playbook referring to the 'sector-wide challenges'. They make it sound like redundancies and restructures are inevitable. We can keep questioning that narrative and develop alternative ones.

Exclusive.

The government spent more than £23k on legal services related to Michelle Donelan’s letter to UK Research and Innovation about members of an advisory panel, bringing the total cost of the incident to the government & UKRI to more than £60k.

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

UCL 'short-term finance-driven decision making and the university’s lack of any real interest in continuity of employment or in staff-student relations”

Student nos + casualisation= double-figure redundancies in its History Dept

Plse sign petition

cheesegratermagazine.org/2024/04/08/the…

NEW on the blog: a post about the upcoming UCU Solidarity Movement meeting, co-sponsored by the branch: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/he-…

NEW on the blog: a post about the upcoming UCU Solidarity Movement meeting, co-sponsored by the branch: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/he-…

🚨HE IN CRISIS🚨
How Can We Build Resistance?

✴️Our sector is under attack — Redundancies,Pay&Conditions
✴️Important meeting for all @UCU reps!

⏱️6pm
📅Monday April 15
👉Register: bit.ly/UCUSM_HEcrisis

Supported by:
@Aberdeen_UCU
University of Liverpool UCU Won Its Pensions Back
UCU at London Met is #rising
Royal Holloway UCU
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NEW on the blog - Re-building Research - on ensuring RHUL retains its core identity as a joint excellence institution by not letting that focus on research slide: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/re-…

NEW on the blog - Re-building Research - on ensuring RHUL retains its core identity as a joint excellence institution by not letting that focus on research slide: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/re-…

The fragile state of UK higher education - once a jewel in the crown, respected around the world, now riven with financial uncertainty. What a very unnecessary loss

very sovering reading ... HE self immolation

Royal Holloway UCU Happy Easter? (It is about rising from death, so a sector can dream…)

The fab team at Queen Mary UCU have gathered this frankly shocking list of universities running redundancy programs in various forms - it makes grim reading for the health of the sector: qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

New on the blog - a post from our Green rep Liz Schafer to mark Earth Hour on 23rd March, with a round up of some initiatives in the sector and at RHUL: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/ear…

NEW on the blog - voting is now open for a range of UCU officer positions, including the General Secretary. We've gathered key information and resources to help members decide how to cast their vote: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/vot…

Today's JNC just finished just past 3 this afternoon.
I salute my fellow negotiators Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver Dr Marion Hersh Mark Taylor-Batty Jackie, Donna, and staff for their staying power as well as skill.

And all UCU members who took action.
Perseverance in adversity.
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NEW on the blog - voting is now open for a range of UCU officer positions, including the General Secretary. We've gathered key information and resources to help members decide how to cast their vote: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/vot…

NEW on the blog - Back To Anonymous: The Promotions Process at RHU - an update on our discussions around equalities with a focus on the proposed revisions of the promotions process: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/bac…