Mark Posen 🌱 💚 Ⓥ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦Nov 24, 2022
GreenPartyMolly
A new workload model means I’m teaching three times more than last year
I’m worse off in real terms than I was a decade ago
And they’ve taken a large chunk out of my pension without negotiation
Are you at all surprised I’m on strike today?
We need to bring universities back into the public sector and fund them properly
#ucurising
Nov 24, 2022 at 6:46amWeb
Show threadSomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙Nov 24, 2022
@Molly
Full solidarity with all striking today.
#UCURising
Show threadAngharadHafodNov 24, 2022
@Molly not just a little bit worse off either. I think it's around 20%; we haven't had a real terms pay rise for 12 years.
Show threadAlison HeaneyNov 24, 2022
@Molly you have my support
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPENov 24, 2022
@Molly To what extent have universities been in the public sector, and which ones have moved and how?
Show threadGreenPartyMollyNov 25, 2022
@TimWardCam They were always private corporations but run more like trusts or charities and with a public sector ethos. Gentlemen’s agreements again. Wide open to profiteering and unscrupulous managers. Our contract similar comes from an earlier era of decency and respect and gives us little protection now we are part of a cut-throat market
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPENov 25, 2022

@Molly I've certainly heard rumours from within a university of mutterings around "going completely private", ie not accepting British students on government terms, ie with capped fees on which they lose money, any more.

And I have observed the casualisation of the academic workforce, with more people being hired ad hoc for the odd lecture course or to give a few supervisions.

Show threadClive DurdleNov 28, 2022
@TimWardCam @Molly Why does everyone assume the alternatives are private or the state? Doughnuts! Households, the commons, markets and states. Universties are part of the commons, commoning. They therefores should be coops, completely open source. We do love our feudal enclosing habitus
Show threadMikeyWikeyNov 24, 2022
@Molly That would be robbery in any other instance!
Show threadPaulMNov 24, 2022
@Molly
My daughter went to McGill in Montreal. Fees (international student rates) were less than UK. 390 contact hours pa guaranteed.
My kids were in a private school to 16. At the end we were paying £16k pa for about 8-900 teaching hours pa, class sizes ~15.
What I’d like to know is: where does the £9k/student pa go? Because it quite clearly isn’t to the teaching staff.