Do you know how democracy works in UCU? Would you like to get involved in setting local and national policy? Hillman Lecture Theatre (GEG32) Wednesday 8th March, 1 – 3pm Only members can vote, but all welcome! This year we are trying out a new experiment. We are holding a ‘mini congress’, which will imitate the national UCU congress, and inform our policy for the … Continue reading Event: Mini Congress 2017

All week UCU have had a stall in the Hub as part of the National Recruitment Week, and today the Anti-casualisation Day of Action. So our Reps walked around the Hub talking to students about casualisation and whether they knew the extent of casualisation at Coventry University…this is what they thought about it: Continue reading Anti-casualisation Day of Action

On the 18th June, 2016, Coventry UCU went on strike during the pre-application Coventry University undergraduate and postgraduate Open Day. We decided to host what we called the ‘Alternative Open Day’, in order to explain to potential parents and students the issues with the privatisation and marketisation of higher education that concern both staff and students. The event was an absolute success, with great speakers all … Continue reading REPORT: Alternative Open Day, 18th June 2016

NATIONAL UCU STRIKE ACTION: WHY ARE WE STRIKING? Coventry University staff are out on strike on the 18th June Open Day as part of an ongoing national dispute between University and Colleges Union (UCU), the primary union for academic and academic related staff in higher education, and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). This leaflet explains why we are doing this why it is … Continue reading Open Day Strike 18th June 2016

On the 25th and 26th May 2015, Universities across the UK engaged in a nationally coordinated strike action. At Coventry University we had pickets both days, and on the Wednesday we held a rally at the Quadrant Club in Coventry with speakers from Coventry UCU, Warwick Uni UCU and Warwickshire Colleges UCU. Both days were a huge success, and as you can see from the … Continue reading UCU Strike Action May 25th and 26th

Open Meeting Friday 18th March RCG17, 1 – 3pm All Welcome​ Dear colleagues, We invite you to our Spring semester general Open Meeting. The focus will be on the recent (Nov 2015) government Green Paper: ‘Higher education: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice’ and its implications for staff at Coventry University as well as for the sector more widely. To lay the foundations for discussion … Continue reading UCU Open Meeting: The Green Paper and the Future of Higher Education

University UCU Women’s Rep Penny Grifiths welcomes two esteemed guest speakers in the second installment of the ‘Celebrating Equality and Diversity’ series:   Rhiannon Lockley (Halesowen College), West Midlands Regional Women’s Rep, will be discussing women’s rights, the gender pay gap, and life as an academic, union activist and mother. Coventry University’s own Randhir Auluck, internationally published academic, politician, magistrate, board member, trade union activist, … Continue reading Celebrating Equality and Diversity Part 2

Equalities Event 24 Feb 2016  Dear colleagues,   We would like to invite you to our next open event organised by our Equalities Working Group for the 2nd UCU National Recruitment Week (22nd – 26th Feb). Please come along and bring a colleague, members and non-members welcome. Please email us if you require disabled access or communications support. We will also be having a UCU recruitment … Continue reading “Celebrating Equality & Diversity” Event – 24th Feb 2016

Coventry University has had several highly rated and successful courses in Music performance, composition and technology.  There are plans to close all or some of these courses, which we in UCU are deeply concerned about and currently seeking to represent the interests of members in regard of.  The resources and facilities in the Music Department are excellent.  We want to see these programmes, which play … Continue reading Closure of Coventry University Music Department