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  • 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…

  • Another University is Possible……

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    Another university is possible – one that really does live the values of the ‘common good’ but is also one where a new generation of students is created – a generation that lives our values, debates them with staff, and helps ‘co-create’ a curriculum that helps change Scotland, the UK and indeed the planet in…

  • Spirits high on day three of our Industrial Action

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    The local Public Service Union PCS were a welcome addition to today’s picket line with Lindsay Morgan and Magnus Hughson bringing along their local banner. And from early on we also had the welcome support from the newly formed Student support network who distributed the excellent GCU students support the strikers leaflet. The facts of…

  • Caledonian unions celebrate impact of migration

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    Staff and students came out for a quick pic on the nationally organised ‘One Day Without Us’ day of action on February 20th. Speaking after the photoshoot UCU local president Douglas Chalmers said “there’s hardly a family in the West of Scotland which isn’t built on immigration either now or in the past. And it’s…

  • Reprieve for threatened workers as catering common sense is applied at GCU

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    It’s official – Xmas is not cancelled – catering contract change postponed till April 2017 Although it’s not the end of the story,  69 families will now be facing Christmas with a much happier outlook following the welcome announcement that the early termination of GCU’s contract with Cordia is…well… terminated. The staff were told just…

  • Campus Unions and Student Association pledge continued close working

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    Campus trade unions and reps of the GCU Students’ Association met on Monday 31st October as part of their regular update on issues of common concern. Issues discussed included the implications of the current Portfolio Review for jobs and the student experience, the effects of the new timetabling service on staff conditions and student teaching,…

  • Second successful day of industrial action at GCU

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    Starting with Dolly Parton’s ‘Nine to Five’ – surely a workload issue – and finishing rather ironically with Sinatra’s ‘New York, New York,’ our spotify playlist (entitled IndustrialAction2016) provided a very suitable backdrop to the varied discussions we held on the picket line on day 2 of our current industrial action. Focussing today on casualised contracts, our…

  • UCU continue to campaign against harmful ‘Prevent’ measures

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    Campus union UCU have continued to campaign against the UK government’s ill thought out and divisive ‘Prevent’ strategy which seeks to turn academic and support staff into snoopers who monitor students for signs of ‘extremism.’ Having been a part of the English educational scene for several years, the Home Office decided last year that it should…

  • The only honest bank is a food bank….. says the UCU@GCU

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    Supporting the GCU students association initiative of setting up a food bank collection, UCU@GCU has donated 50 bags of groceries – over 300 items, to represent 1 item per member at the university. They are also appealing to their members to collect and donate to the food bank which accepts donations in the Students Association. Although…

  • UCU@GCU help students to ‘bite the ballot’

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    National Voter Registration Day, 5th of February saw posters  put up in 100 classrooms and lecture halls at GCU giving advice to students on how to safeguard their right to vote. In a joint campaign run between UCU and the National Union of Students, 1000 students at GCU were also given a specially printed leaflet letting…