UCU branch of the University of Hertfordshire
https://www.ucuherts.org.uk/
A reminder to members that our AGM is on 30 June at noon, online. Agenda and reports and Zoom link to follow on email.
Last Wednesday both unions attended the visit of the VC and other members of the Executive Team to the School of Creative Arts.
Members might want to send us their feedback on the UET's answers to questions about the restructure, redundancies, closure of programmes and the School's future direction
UCU Workload Survey.
Given the current debates we are having about WAMs and our case for 90-95% to be the
maximum workload limit on WAMs before over-work becomes deemed a Health and Safety risk, we encourage you to fill this survey in:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Workload-...
Welwyn Hatfield Times report on the School of Creative Arts course closures and redundancy consultation:
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/2613229...
The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO
This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
Our president, Dragan Plavsic, has published an article in @timeshighered.bsky.social on the wider context of the cuts to Humanities:
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mark...
My humanities degrees are being scrapped - cos “money??” - but Lit, Linguistics and creative writing have just climbed THIRTY places in the good university guide league table. Couldn’t make this shit up @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social
'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3
Any parent and applicant planning to attend the Sussex University Open Day today, we can save you the trouble: these are the non-answers staff is told to give you.
To send your staff out with this nonsense and treat visitors to this ChatGPT approach is disrespectful to all.
Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...
