Staff at Coventry University woke up to no March salary in their bank accounts as the University was unable to pay them due to “problems processing pay this month, which does point to this being a wider UK IT systems and / or banking system problem.” They say they have a back-up plan for staff to paid by the 1st of April but… We’re not so … Continue reading April Fools arrives early at Coventry University
Coventry UCU have always placed members welfare, both physically and mentally, above anything else when taking action on your behalf. However Coventry University Leadership is currently focused on trying to maintain ‘business as usual’ whilst requiring teaching staff to undertake significant efforts to move content and delivery online as well as reforming assessments. Coventry UCU sent the below email to the Senior Leadership Team today: … Continue reading NEW: COVID-19 and ASOS Suspension
Curious about what the Branch has been advocating on the behalf of members and all Coventry University staff around coronavirus? Have a read of our emails below to Senior Leadership which outline the situation and highlight our concerns. Additional links about coronavirus can be found below. Advice: UCU advice TUC information around sick pay NHS advice on how to wash your hands Joint statement on … Continue reading UPDATED 22 March 2020: UCU Coventry Coronavirus Branch Advice
Members voted unanimously for ASOS and Reballoting at our Branch Meeting on 19th February 2020 and ASOS will run from 23rd March until 29th April 2020. ASOS – Marking and assessment boycott. ASOS – Boycott of the CORE/Clear Review system. Re-balloting for a continued mandate to carry on our local dispute beyond 30th April 2020. We want the group leadership team to engage with meaningful … Continue reading Action Short of Strike (ASOS) Returns 23rd March – 29th April 2020!
Are you suffering for ‘temporal exhaustion’ with unrealistic targets, excessive workloads and the impact of the New Academic Year? Elise Boulding argues this temporal exhaustion comes about “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future”. We think it’s time for us all to pause and reclaim the present. Our sense of … Continue reading Relieve your ‘temporal exhaustion’ and join us for a UCU Lunchtime Social!
“Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic.” Paulo Freire We have a branch meeting tomorrow 5th February at 12.30pm in George Elliot GE231/2! We ask that all members to make every effort to join us. If you are unable to join, why not nominate a colleague to represent you and feedback? We will be updating you on the dispute as well as reflecting back and focusing … Continue reading Branch Meeting Tomorrow – 5th February 2020
Our systems of further and higher education are no longer fit for purpose. After decades of marketisation and years of austerity cuts, recent high-profile strikes in the education sector signified a service at breaking point. But what to do? How do we pursue education, not as a commodity, but as ‘the practice of freedom’? How can we dismantle the elitism of higher education, the degradation of … Continue reading CLASS Publication: A New Vision for Further and Higher Education
David Ridley spoke today at Coventry UCU’s “Humanising the University” Teach Out. David has written the enclosed document which explains why marketisation is having such a destructive impact on education and is so detrimental to the wellbeing of staff and students. https://hemarketisation.wordpress.com/pamphlet/ Continue reading David Ridley: “Markets, Monopolies and Marketisation”
Margaret Thatcher famously claimed there was ‘No Alternative’ to the way she re-shaped public institutions in the UK, and this neoliberal mantra is repeated endlessly by the new highly paid managerial elite who run British Universities. But as David Ridley expliained today, this is an untrue – there are many different models of governance which could be adopted, which would make Coventry University less of … Continue reading Marketisation and Management – Coventry UCU Teach Out
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