Save English at Chester and Shrewsbury

In support of the English department at University of Chester and University Centre Shrewsbury.

[Save English at Chester and Shrewsbury @SaveEnglishUoC]

Brilliant Citizen Students making their voices heard today.
We salute you!
#noredundancieschester

[NoRedundanciesChester @NoRedundancies]

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?!

The Governors' flagrant dismissal of student voices will only serve to make them louder.

WATCH. THIS. SPACE.

#noredundancieschester @ChesterUcu @NigelUNI @SaveEnglishUoC For you @DrSallyWest1

[UCU Chester @ChesterUcu]

TWITTER STORM 12pm tomorrow!
If you can’t be at the rally in person please tweet your support at 12 using the hashtags #OurChesterStory and #ReclaimOurUniversity

[Save English at Chester and Shrewsbury @SaveEnglishUoC]

Posted without comment (if you know, you know).

[UCU Chester @ChesterUcu]

This picture is repeated all over the country. Staff and students deserve fairness and transparency in how public money is managed. It’s time to reclaim our university. Be there on Saturday. 7/7

[UCU Chester @ChesterUcu]

As senior management teams across the country slash and burn their institutions, cutting excellent staff and departments without a thought, Chester’s VC gives us a snapshot of the perks and paybacks those same managers have come to expect. THREAD 1/7

[NoRedundanciesChester @NoRedundancies]

JOIN US to RECLAIM OUR UNIVERSITY!
SATURDAY 24th JULY, TOWN HALL, CHESTER.
#reclaimouruniversity
#noredundancieschester

[Higher Education Policy Institute @HEPI_news]

We cannot recover from COVID without the Arts and Humanities https://t.co/h1jA7jnMqo

[Dr Clara Neary @ClaraONeary]

I wrote a piece in the latest edition of Parlance, the PALA newsletter, on my experience of the current threat to the humanities; more relevant today than it was when it came out on Monday! I also wanted to emphasise the huge role of collegiality at times like this. Thanks all 💪

[LiverpoolUni Results @LivUniResults]

“Oh I wish I’d looked after me staff,
But sacking ‘em seemed such a laugh,
All that work they were doing
Was too tempting to ruin
As I lay in me gold-plated bath.”

[Wendy Dossett 💙 @WEDossett]

Thoughts this morning with colleagues and friends in @ArchaeologyChe1, Engineering and Music, Media and Performance, and anywhere else in @uochester still threatened with redundancies. Must be hard hearing others are spared. We will fight on. #solidarity #noredundancieschester

[The Ginger Behemoth @DrSallyWest1]

Thank you @NoRedundancies from me and all at @SaveEnglishUoC. Your support has been amazing. Finally, someone heard you sing.
Whatever you do and wherever you go, always have confidence in your voices.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Make no mistake the university have withdrawn the risk of redundancy in these areas because of the tremendous efforts of the @ChesterUcu branch, and their amazing students.

Solidarity with those whose jobs are still at risk. Now let’s save every job 👏🏻

[Dr Clara Neary @ClaraONeary]

Strangely, having planned to update Twitter today on our campaign to @SaveEnglishUoC, we’ve just been told the uni “does not intend to proceed further” with these redundancies. Much is owed to @ChesterUcu and to the 1000+ signatories to our letter of support. Thank you all v much

[UCU Chester @ChesterUcu]

BREAKING: the University of Chester has withdrawn the risk of redundancy from staff in three departments: English, Theology & Geography. Staff in other areas remain at risk, so our fight to oppose compulsory redundancies will continue with the same level of determination.

[UCU Chester @ChesterUcu]

Despite the overwhelmingly positive support of students, the public, and the rest of the sector, the cruel and unjustified process of redundancies at Chester rumbles on. We won’t stop fighting for jobs and for a fairer and better university. Ballots will be sent out shortly.

[UCU Chester @ChesterUcu]

University ‘leaders’ cannot handle student solidarity with staff. For all the talk of ‘citizen students’ what they really want is student consumers who will demand, complain, and not care how staff are treated. When students support staff, they are quickly silenced.

[Save English at Chester and Shrewsbury @SaveEnglishUoC]

Any upcoming meetings where this would be appropriate? 😉

[Kate LeCroy, PhD (she/her) @BeesYall]

I hired a Dolly Parton impersonator to kick off my virtual PhD defense, 10/10 would recommend 💖 (my advisor laughed til he cried) #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdlife #DollyParton

[David Petts @DavidPetts1]

It's absolutely outrageous that the President of the University Council at @uochester should treat a thoughtful and engaged letter from the student body with such complete contempt. Why are people like this involved in a University? 1/2

[Kate Wild @soyoumighthear]

THIS is exactly what the shortsightedness (amongst all the other crap) of the VC's redundancy plan ignores ...

[NoRedundanciesChester @NoRedundancies]

LOOK!! A fierce (student) lion holding Dolores Simmons-Umbridge to account for her despotic educational reforms.*

*A poorly-disguised metaphor, if ever there was one.

#noredundancieschester #noconfidenceinEunice @profstevewilko @NigelUNI @ChesterUcu @SaveEnglishUoC

[NoRedundanciesChester @NoRedundancies]

OUT TODAY! **A BRAND NEW HARRY POTTER FILM!**

Any suggestions for a title??

#noredundancieschester @ChesterUcu @SaveEnglishUoC @VC_UoChester @ShitChester