kentucu

UCU University of Kent
Fighting for a better Higher Education - staff working conditions are student learning conditions.

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

THERES ALWAYS SOMETHING

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“Energised and inspired to kick off another academic semester!”

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

Vice Chancellors knew that tuition fees were not indexed to inflation. They also knew that sources of international students can fluctuate wildly.

Yet, VCs engaged in rampant debt-driven spending based on fraudulent projections.

Was that incompetence, corruption, or both?

[kentucu @ucukent]

As we get ever closer to Welcome Week we hope everyone has had an opportunity to rest and take time away from working. Let's also hope that the new academic year is a little quieter and more 'normal' than we've had for a while.

[christopherpittard.bsky.social @CAPittard]

You can’t have a university without research, because that’s where the teaching comes from and it’s what distinguishes higher education from other levels.

[James Topham @JamesTophamWord]

Arts funding

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

A 15 yr old inter-railing is seen to be a child causing such outrage around it while a 15 yr old unaccompanied boy of minoritised identity escaping violence and seeking asylum is processed as an adult, and housed with older strange men in the UK putting them in danger. Diff rules.

[Peter Armstrong @PeterAr18228396]

Nothing to do with league tables, of course

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

If it is a university, then academics can criticise managers. If academics cannot criticise managers, then you can conclude the entity is no longer a university, but just a degree mill.

[UCU @ucu]

Full solidarity with our @fbunational comrades ✊

Thoughts are with all those impacted and involved.

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

Actual universities have departments regardless of fluctuations in the degree sales market, because they are research institutions. It is impossible to have an HEI that aligns lecturing capacity exactly to the market demand for degrees and also offer degrees of any value.

[UCU @ucu]

Open University UCU is conducting an important survey on redundancies.

If you know of any redundancies at your current or former employer, please share what information you can via this form before 25th September:

https://t.co/MVfWQc1CJC

@oubucu

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

Uni degrees have substantive and symbolic value.

The substantive part is the experience of meeting standards set by research academics.

The symbolic part is access to a brand, a historical legacy of research or educating elites.

Senior managers killed the former in 10 years.

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

SURVEY! The brilliant people @oubucu are seeking input from across the sector on the current state of redundancies: https://t.co/tvuakeP0Go

Please help out, it doesn't take long but will be key in getting a sense of the impact of the shrinking of HE and how this has been handled

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

Always ask *for whom* when someone calls a period a 'Golden Age'.

https://t.co/jnHR1jqgHV

[kentucu @ucukent]

@benjamin_thorne Good luck! Our loss is definitely Reading's gain.

[UCU Solidarity Movement @ucu_solidarity]

UCU Solidarity Movement organising meeting

Join us to organise solidarity for strikes and disputes and defending education under Starmer

🗓️ Wednesday 21 August
⏰6pm
Online on Zoom
Register 👉🏽 https://t.co/U80pXdccCX

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

🚨BREAKING: Labour is set to repeal both the Minimum Service Levels and the 2016 Trade Union Act.

The Tories brought these laws in to ban workers from defending jobs, pay and conditions.

This legislation wouldn't be out of place under a dictatorship - good riddance.