Written by punkacademicDecember 8, 2020

We and They: UCU and the threat of redundancies at the University of Exeter

A spectre stalks the University of Exeter, and sadly it isn’t that of communism. It’s that of redundancies. Tomorrow the local UCU branch meets over Zoom at 1.30pm in an Extraordinary General Meeting (ExGM) requested by its members to discuss the threat of ‘mass redundancies’. Consultation on redundancies in professional services units has already commenced; […]

Written by punkacademicSeptember 8, 2020September 10, 2020

Say no to onsite teaching: Being the university in a time of crisis

The news tonight that the government is to ban social gatherings of more than six people should be a turning point in the discussion over universities teaching face-to-face (F2F) on campus. Large gatherings, the government says, are the greatest risk of spread. By magic, apparently, such risks don’t apply to workplaces, places of education or […]

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We and They: UCU and the threat of redundancies at the University of Exeter

Say no to onsite teaching: Being the university in a time of crisis