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  • Do the numbers behind the proposals add up?

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    As consultation continues on the University’s proposals for redundancies and programme changes, staff across the institution are looking closely at the financial context behind them. Across the UK higher education sector, universities have warned of financial pressures linked to international student recruitment and rising operating costs. These pressures are often described in terms of projected future…

  • What questions are staff asking during this consultation period?

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    As the consultation on proposed redundancies and programme changes continues, staff across the University are reviewing the proposals and preparing responses that will be submitted through the consultation process. Consultation allows staff and unions to examine proposals in detail and to ask questions about how decisions have been reached and what their wider implications may…

  • Consultation or confirmation?

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    As the University’s consultation on proposed redundancies and programme changes continues, many staff are working through the detail of the proposals and their potential implications. In redundancy situations, consultation is not simply a procedural step. Employment law requires that consultation be carried out in a meaningful way and with a genuine willingness to consider alternatives.…

  • Terrible weather but great turnout for better pay!

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    Unison members at Glasgow Caledonian University were out in force today on the first of four days of strike action in favour of better pay. Under the banner of rising together for better pay, the staff, whose roles cover administration, library staff, student support, IT, maintenance, cleaning, catering, security and more, were determined to make…

  • Students’ right to appeal marks and grades

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    Dear students, On 24 May, UCU@GCU published the blog post ‘Students – we believe management are endangering the integrity of your degree –UCU@GCU’. In it, we expressed our worry that GCU management has implemented corner-cutting measures in marking and assessment that may endanger the integrity of your degree. GCU management has implemented these measures in…

  • Management threat to access staff e-mails due to dispute shocks campus unions

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    The UCU are in a legal and legitimate dispute with management at GCU over wages pay and conditions. Currently the dispute is taking the form of members working to contract and implementing a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) by refusing to mark and assess students work. Staff had made a cogent case for no deductions…

  • Solidarity towards UCU @ GCU

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    Colleagues in Media and Journalism were copied in to this e-mail from UCU member @ Ulster University, Dr Anthea Irwin, who felt compelled to resign as external examiner for the Media and Communications degree following GCU Management’s actions over deductions. The e-mail is self explanatory Subject: Resigning my position as external examiner Dear Professor Stephen Decent …

  • Students – we believe management are endangering the integrity of your degree – UCU@GCU

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    The following statement was made public by UCU@GCU today (24th May 2023). On 16th May, a draft of this was given to GCU management to comment on as they might wish, and the publishing of the statement was delayed but the opportunity to comment was not taken up. If management wish to comment on the…

  • We deeply regret university management’s failure of vision and of nerve – UCU@GCU

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    Glasgow Caledonian university branch of the UCU today expressed their deep disappointment with GCU management for what the branch see as a failure of vision and of nerve.  This follows the management declining to take what the branch had seen as a helpful approach within the current stage of the marking and assessment boycott. Two…

  • UCU and Student Officers discuss Marking and Assessment Boycott

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    UCU branch committee members had their first meeting with the newly elected Student Association Sabbatical officers last week (Tuesday 16th May) where we welcomed them to their posts, and intimated that together with the other campus unions we looked forward to working constructively with them over this coming year. In a wide ranging discussion over…