Change UoG 🟥

Challenging how @uniofglos management adopts neoliberal paradigms in HE that rip off students & staff as part of wider systems of social & ecological injustice.

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

It's #StudentsDeserveBetter National Week of Action! We've written to our VC to request he faces questions from students & staff. Throughout the week, we'll be raising awareness of student (& staff) resistance @uniofglos & across the UK. #TeamGlos #LetsDoThis

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

Is this enough? No. Do we need tuition fee reductions? Yes. Will we keep fighting? Damn right. But never forget that direct action works, that we'd have got nothing without organising. So let's take a moment to celebrate that! 🥳🍾 Then tomorrow we go again 😡✊ #rentstrike

[University of Gloucestershire @uniofglos]

2⃣🏠We are confirming a 45% reduction on the April rent installment for students living in university managed accommodation, as well as our plans to write to all private landlords on our database to encourage them to consider adjustments to their contracts with students. [3/4]

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

Sorry you folks are still going through this! Solidarity with all in Humanities ✊ Sign the petition against the cuts here https://t.co/OAr3RhPecB

[Sarah 🌥 @sarahestia]

we now have a petition (and it’s not lost on me that this .... isn’t the first one.) https://t.co/jqf6S9inw6

[Sarah 🌥 @sarahestia]

we’ve already lost 2 tutors and one is on waaay reduced hours because @uniofglos clearly not caring about humanities. uni is hard enough during this and UOG seem to only be making it worse

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

Refund or rent strike, you choose

[University of Gloucestershire @uniofglos]

To our students, we want to reassure you that your messages have not gone unheard.

We'd like to share with you a message from our university leadership team.

@yoursu #teamglos #uniofglos

[UoM Rent Strike 2023 @rentstrikeUoM]

The overwhelming message is clear, students deserve a rent cut!

@OfficialUoM and every other uni which refuses to refund students for halls they can’t live in, you have no one behind you...

[RENT STRIKE NOW 🏘 @rentstrikenow]

💥 MORE THAN 45 UNIVERSITIES (and counting!) WILL BE RENT STRIKING THIS JANUARY 💥

This is the biggest national student rent strike in history! If you are a student at any of these unis please get involved! ✊

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

You can sign the petition here https://t.co/xZn9Clscqm Don't believe management when they say there's no money or try and divide students & staff with talk of more redundancies, they are spending millions on speculative estates projects, new managerial appointments, etc

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

The PM ignored universities last night. Students & staff have been used & exploited throughout the crisis, but maybe even Boris knows they can't keep charging rent for accommodation students are banned from using. UoG students are campaigning for refunds, refunds or rent strike!

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

Students @uniofglos are seeking partial refunds on tuition & accomodation fees. "We are paying extortionate amounts for rooms we've been advised not to live in." Hearing that if no agreement is reached there may be a rent strike. Sign the petition here 👇
https://t.co/xZn9Clscqm

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

In 2021 there will be rent strikes at universities across the country. Manchester students have already won £millions in refunds. Uni of Gloucestershire students please complete & share this quick survey 🙏🙂 #TeamGlos #StudentsDeserveBetter
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https://t.co/EGlqO7FQV1
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[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

@IWGBUoL @eideticat @UniofGreenwich @janeharri1966 Lol they are a sensitive bunch VCs! The @uniofglos VC wrote us the other week, he complained about a meme about him on Twitter from Halloween 🤣❄

[Ronan Burtenshaw @ronanburtenshaw]

Universities should not be run like for-profit corporations, education should not be a commodity to be bought and sold.

But neither should its aim be to transfer ‘skills’ to a workforce, a production line for little units of economic output.

That whole idea has to change.

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

@yoursuwelfare These are the main concerns we've been discussing and organising around. You're welcome to join our discussions any time 😊

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

Uni bosses now hard nostalgic for the summer when stickers on campus just said "We are the University. Let's make it better" https://t.co/XF6BG8R3r0 and not "Join the rent strike" 🤣 #StudentsDeserveBetter #TeamGlos

[Student Action Bristol @StudentsActBris]

We've got stickers and posters up over Bristol and the uni. See if you can spot us and tag our Instagram @rentstrikebris. Watch out for an announcement on Friday!

[Do Better Academia @DBetterAcademia]

⚠️Media Request for Info⚠️

Do you have any info on how research grants/postdoc fellowships are awarded?

Please contact journalist @jasmine_m_u if you do. You can be completely anonymous & all can be confidential

Any help would be much appreciated

Please retweet! Thank you

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

ChangeUoG doesn't do party politics but I'm loving these #ReasonsToKeepFighting from @gpew_students 👏

[Green Students @gpewstudents]

It's a new day, which means a new #ReasonsToKeepFighting...

STUDENT AND STAFF SOLIDARITY IS A THING OF BEAUTY🤩

To have students and staff united in the fight against exploitation and inequality is a true #ReasonsToKeepFighting✊💚

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

@uni_dispute2 @ProfJCharmley @ChayQuinn @RentStrikeCam @uniadvocates @zarahsultana @HuwMerriman @shanemanning @steve_garelick @Zander_Lavall @IainDale @YourStMarys Can't comment on the legal complexities and whatever loopholes might exist but the moral case is clear. @YourStMarys making students pay rent for accommodation they'd been told to vacate is another example of how our neoliberal universities are failing students. It's a rip off.

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

@pauseorpayuk 🤣

[Change UoG 🟥 @changeuog]

"Don't suffer your Selves to be buffetted from Post to Pillar, by Pinning your Faith upon such that propose no more than to find a way out for themselves, like Rats that quit the House before it falls."
— Anon., 1600

[Do Better Academia @DBetterAcademia]

Loughborough University Vice-Chancellor Robert Allison has also announced his retirement at the end of this academic year.

The first two Vice-Chancellors resignations of how many?

https://t.co/q4H3dxH0Xg