Mastodawn

So happy to be back at work these last two days. So awful to see no movement on negotiations - government continues battle against its citizens, we will then have to strike again. Here a good article on state of U.K. higher education & reason for strikes: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ucu-strike-university-higher-education-unite-unison-tuition-fees/

Britain’s universities are being destroyed

OPINION: Marketisation has left university staff on precarious contracts and students paying more for less

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Mark Rubin Feb 3, 2023

@sabinaleonelli Nice article!

"University administrators...invest more in the glitz and less in the grit; more in the shiny things you see on the surface, less in the people doing hard work to keep it all afloat.

Academic pay has fallen by 25% in real terms since 2010, while workloads have soared. A survey of thousands of staff last year found that they now work, on average, two extra days a week, unpaid."

#ucurising #ucurisingindefinitely

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Deecheetham Feb 9, 2023

@MarkRubin @sabinaleonelli At Oxford, we don't need shiny new humanities centres and dorms. We need to compensate workers and provide proper work contracts We didn't even get an increase in 2020, so we are in no way keeping up even before cost of living crisis. We keep fighting as it's desperate for a lot of us now.