Following the 'Update on Voluntary Severance Scheme and Cost-Saving Measures' Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, March 28th, the UCU Lincoln **NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES** committee formally requested assurance from the Vice-Chancellor that there would be no compulsory redundancies.

#NoCompulsoryRedundancies #ucu

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The management's aims are for 220 job losses overall, which is about 1/10 of staff. Queen Mary UCU, information for your list.

Notices are served. The Marking and Assessment Boycott begins this time next week - Friday 19 April. Fighting against sacking 35% of staff in 11 affected departments.

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.

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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.

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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

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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
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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…