UCU Scotland Congress is taking place online on Friday, 26 March 2021. Attached are the various deadlines relating to the submission of motions/amendments and issuing of CBC reports in order to assist branches in planning committee meetings in early 2021. More detailed information on Congress arrangements and details of how to register will be issued
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11/02/2021 Dear colleague, You have until 5pm next Wednesday 17 February to give us your thoughts about industrial action by completing our survey. We’ve had a great overall response so far but the more responses we get, the better informed your democratic representatives will be when they make decisions about future disputes. Please remember, it
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Tackling workloads branch briefing, Friday 19 February, 2.30pm – 4pm.We’re hosting an online branch briefing session to consider workplace strategies to address excessive workloads which were already endemic in our sector prior to the pandemic. UCU Glasgow branch reps will outline how they have successfully recruited workload safety reps and implemented a series of workload
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Dear colleague, UCU has called on the government and universities to switch to fully online teaching as the default for the duration of next term. We have not taken this decision lightly but we believe that it is in the best interests of staff, students and the public. Read the story outlining our position here.
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UCU is still offering free membership to PhD Teaching Students for 4 years! This is a unique opportunity for you to join our Union and take advantage of all that we can offer our members. See here for our presentation. It is very quick to join. Just visit https://www.ucu.org.uk and then press the button marked
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Dear colleagues Recently, the House of Lords backed an amendment to the higher education (HE) bill that says universities’ performance in the teaching excellence framework (TEF) should not be linked to the tuition fees they are allowed to charge. This is a significant blow for the government and the result of a great deal of
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Governance Act We have received an update from the higher education minister, Shirley-Anne Somerville, on the timescales for implementing the governance act and outlining when different aspects of the act will come into force. The letter received is attached. In line with what we’d previously been informed the provisions of the act were commenced at
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UCU continues to keep the heat on universities with our ‘stamp out casual contracts’ campaign. Following an excellent day of action against precarious employment UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has spoken out in the Times Higher Education (THE) on HE institutions’ inadequate response to published data showing an exploitative employment model.
Members at the University of Aberdeen took strike action on Wednesday, 7th December in response to the University’s plans to cut jobs and downgrade staff within the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition. If you would like to send messages of support and solidarity, please send these to the Aberdeen branch – ucu@abdn.ac.uk
UCU is pleased to confirm that staff who were put on FutureWorks agency contracts will now be offered CU Services employment contracts, recognition has now been agreed and in addition, the union and the University have agreed to meet for talks around the issue of dealing with recognition in the group’s companies. Thank you to
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