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• Universities get a ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ from Mandelson

  
  London Student — Authority: 424
  English universities will be hit by cuts totalling £398 million next academic year, in what has been described by the University and College Union (UCU) as a “Christmas kick in the teeth for staff and students”. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has sent a ‘grant letter’ to Tim Melville-Ross, the head of ...
  1 week ago

• Inscribing Einstein

  
  ANTHEM — Authority: 111
  If you are one of the 17,570 people who have signed UCU’s petition against the so-called Research Excellence Framework (REF) proposal and now you are wondering what happened to your signature, you might be interested to know that besides submitting it to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stand up for research!

  
  ANTHEM — Authority: 111
  Calling all academics: stand up for research and sign the University and College Union’s (UCU) petition against the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) proposal, which is an attack on fundamental research in the UK. According to this proposal, 25% of the assessment of a given research output would be based ...
  3 weeks ago

• UCU’s Blind Eye To Antisemitism.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 481
  In a rather transparent tactic, UCU is using a proxy to advance the campaign to boycott Israelis, Engage has much more.I have said this more than once, this anti-Israeli boycott campaign is poison to the trade union movement.Update 1: Over the past five years there has been a steady stream of members leaving the trade ...
  3 weeks ago

• UCU’s boycott of Israel blinds it to antisemitism. Is this solidarity?

  
  Flesh is Grass — Authority: 112
  In a post on Engage, David Hirsh gives context to the invitation UCU, the main British trade union for academics, extended to Bongani Masuku to speak against Israel. Last week, Bongani Masuku was found to have incited hatred against Jews by the South African Human Rights Commission.Self-righteously, UCU rubbishes the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Negative Impact

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 519
  After spending the best part of the last couple of days being prodded and poked and subjected to all manner of indignity in the name of medical science, I think it’s appropriate to return to the blogosphere with another rant. Before I start, however, I’d seriously like to thank everyone at the University Hospital ...
  4 weeks ago

• Trade unions at the 11th hour

  
  A World to Win — Authority: 121
  How to restore the right to strike and to bargain collectively in the face of a continuing European-wide legal assault is the central issue facing the trade union movement and it is a challenge that poses historic political issues too. The shocking reality facing workers who assert their rights emerged at a ...
  4 weeks ago

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