Archive

• False accounting? Why Higher Education Reforms Don’t Add Up
• 20th October – A national demonstration against austerity
• Remploy Day of Action against closures
• New South West Region Blog
• Return to sender – PCS members tell Govt to shove pensions letter
• BSU Students’ Union Calls the Government to Come Clean on Student Funding
• ‘Name and shame’ threat to university low-payers
• UCU AT BSU TERM-TIME WORKLOAD CALCULATOR
• JUSTICE FOR ALFIE MEADOWS: DROP THE CHARGES NOW
• Companies do far better when the workplace is unionised than when not
• Early Day Motion 2632 on Forced Academies
• NASUWT refuses to sign “scandalous” pensions deal
• Government number crunchers rule against pension privatisation
• U.S. Student Loan Fury
• Tory striker: Michael Gove
• PUBLIC SERVICE GOLD PLATED PENSIONS (ALLEGEDLY!)
• America’s growing anti-intellectualism
• How Activism Works
• Manchester March For The Alternative
• UCUATBSU Members Make National Press
• Elite’s self-preservation
• PUTTING VISION BACK INTO HIGHER EDUCATION: A RESPONSE TO THE GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER
• Great display of unity on the 30th
• Not too posh to protest: Eton staff may join pension strike!
• Seperate And Unequal In The USA
• Join the on-line vote of “no confidence” in David Willetts
• You must watch this!
• There’s a reason why teachers are speaking with one voice on pensions: they know they’re being cheated
• Short Cuts by Howard Hotson a LRB Article On Private Universities
• TPS Pensions loss calculator
• Please Help Our Colleague Imprisoned In Colombia
• THE VULTURES ARE CIRCLING – BRING OUT THE SLINGSHOTS?
• The Great BritishTuition Fees Heist
• Academic Autonomy versus Micro-Management? UCU @BSU Survey
• UCU Member Reports On The March For The Alternative
• Strike Advice – 24th March
• Joint Union Statement On HE Jobs
• UCU Members Vote For Industrial Action
• Interesting TES Article On PGCE’s
• Who? Why? What? – All the gen on the ballots!
• March For The Alternative Details
• Support your union – Vote ‘yes’ to action!
• University of West of England to strike…Please send messages of support now!
• March for the Alternative – TUC march, 26 March
• UCU warns of more to come as private college collapses leaving students in debt
• So there’s no money, huh?
• Pensions will cost Lecturers 50% more
• An Alternative To Managerialism
• Shopping around for a better way to operate? Try John Lewis
• US students drown in sea of debt
• On Defending Higher Education
• UUK fails in effort to stage a public show of support for fees rise
• A Report On The implemention Of The Equality Act, 2010
• National SSR Campaign
• Public survey shows support for investment in higher education
• Inspiring YouTube clips from the Coalition of Resistance Conference
• Cameron reacts to student protests
• The National Campaign for the Public University
• UCU, NUS, UNISON and the NUT launched new joint petition
• On The Humanties Versus The Sciences
• These Are The Students Who Ruined It For The Rest
• Corporate Values Take Over UK HE
• 50,000 Marched To Defend UK Higher Education
• UCU Analysis Of Browne Report
• Recruit A New Member And Win An Ipod Touch!
• Higher Education Sector Conference
• Really Good Article On HE Cuts
• At Least One VC Speaks Out Against The Cuts!
• UCU at BSU LAUNCH CAMPAIGN ON CHILDCARE VOUCHERS
• NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION TO DEFEND UK UNIVERSITIES Wednesday 10th November (The Wed of reading week)
• SPECIAL BRANCH MEETING
• The Browne Report? The Comprehensive Spending Review? What On Earth Does It All Mean? (opinion piece)
• Message from Sally Hunt, general secretary
• USS Campaign – next steps
• UCU Convenes A Special HE Sector Conference
• Browne’s recommendations the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for affordable higher education, says union
• Browne Report At a Glance
• Save Our Pensions
• 23 Things they don’t Tell You About Capitalism – Book Review
• On Managerialism In HE