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UK Uni Crisis News

Members of the UK’s University and College Union (ucu) are participating in a marking and assessment boycott over staff pay and working conditions.

Here’s my pick of the latest news: 🧵👉

#highereducation #highered #ucu #UCUStrike #ucuRISING #MAB #SettletheDispute
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03:23 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Birmingham University

Reports of academic standards slipping: Management mark a 4000-word essay in 12 mins flat! https://twitter.com/Birmin...
03:24 AM - Jun 15, 2023 (Edited)
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Brighton University

🔹 Hundreds of staff and students marched against plans for mass redundancies last Saturday.

🔹 A third of Brighton’s UCU branch is “at risk” of redundancy, suggesting they’re being targeted by management.

https://twitter.com/Bright...
03:26 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Bristol University

🔹 Staff will strike on Friday during a student open day

🔹 Meanwhile, the vice-chancellor spends her time marking students’ work to cover for staff on the marking boycott:
https://twitter.com/timesh...
03:27 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Durham University

🔹 Strikes on Friday and Saturday

🔹 Durham student KimiChaddah_ writes @guardian article: “instead of placing pressure on the UCEA to resume negotiations…universities are...pursuing every other strategy in existence.”
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The pandemic ruined my A-levels – now the marking boycott casts a shadow over my degree | Kimi Chaddah | The Guardian

For those students sitting final university exams like me, this summer’s graduations are clouded by chaos and uncertainty, says student and writer Kimi Chaddah

03:28 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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University of Kent

The vice-chancellor begins consultation on compulsory redundancies among Arts and Humanities staff despite previously promising “there will be no compulsory redundancies.”
03:28 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Liverpool John Moores University

Staff will strike on Friday during a student open day, with seven more strike days planned in response to management’s 50% pay deduction for staff participating in the marking boycott.
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UCU - Strikes set for Liverpool John Moores University over pay docking

Staff at Liverpool John Moores University will down tools on Friday in the first of eight days of strike action in response to the university's enforcement of 50% wage deductions for staff taking part in the marking boycott.

03:29 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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University of Leeds
🔹 Staff will strike on Thurs, Fri, and Sat, including on student open days: https://twitter.com/katerh...

🔹 Students blame management for the disruption: https://twitter.com/jessot...
03:29 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

LSHTM Management joins Sussex, Cambridge, and Queen Margaret management in calling for the UCEA to resume negotiations with the UCU. 👍
03:30 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London

Management suspends 100% pay deductions following 10 days of strike action:
https://twitter.com/UCUSOA...
03:30 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Newcastle University

Staff plan five days of strike action coinciding with a student open day and exam boards.

https://twitter.com/Newcas...
03:31 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Northumbria University

Reports of academic standards slipping: Students complain about the quality of marking by staff who’ve replaced those on the marking boycott:
https://twitter.com/UCUNUb...
03:31 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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University of Nottingham

🔹 ~ 400 staff criticize uni regulations bypassing the marking boycott

🔹 Meanwhile, VC argues it’s “naïve” to think it would be helpful for her to ask the UCEA to return to negotiations: https://twitter.com/UoNUCU...
03:32 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Queen Mary University of London

🔹 Six days of strikes from Friday onwards

🔹 Meanwhile, management install surveillance cameras in academics' offices to "monitor occupancy."

https://twitter.com/hl_for...
03:32 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Queen’s University Belfast

🔹 759 students will not receive their final results: https://www.bbc.com/news/u...

🔹 Student blames management and UCEA for “screwing us over.”
https://twitter.com/NlAMHM...
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Queen's University: 759 students will not have degrees confirmed - BBC News

More than 750 students will not get their degrees confirmed this summer because of a pay dispute with staff.

03:32 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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UCU Scotland

Further and Higher Education Minister GraemeDeyMSP has a constructive meeting with UCU Scotland about the dispute and the marking and assessment boycott: https://twitter.com/UCUSco...
03:33 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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UCU Westminster

🔹 Staff were on strike last week to protest 100% pay deductions for staff involved in the marking boycott.

🔹 Meanwhile, management offer staff cheap meal deals to help with their living costs: https://twitter.com/ucuwes...
03:33 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Uni Management Response to Students

Universities around the country will hand out “participation certificates” instead of degrees. https://twitter.com/martin...
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03:34 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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UCEA Response

🔹 UCEA: “It is wrong for UCU to encourage small numbers of its members to...[pursue] a higher pay award that is simply unaffordable.” https://www.ucea.ac.uk/new...

🔹 Meanwhile, some UCEA members’ salaries increase by 35% to £700,000 a year.
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Russell Group vice-chancellors salaries rise by up to 35% - The Glasgow Guardian

03:35 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Further Information

🔹 For more information about the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott, please visit: https://www.ucu.org.uk/MAB...

🔹 You can make a donation to support staff here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/fig...
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UCU - Marking and assessment boycott 2023

03:36 AM - Jun 15, 2023
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Credits to JoeSlater87 for the meme at the start: https://twitter.com/JoeSla...
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