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For National Postdoc Appreciation Week (16-20 September), many staff received an email from the Careers Service including a message about “The search for professional security as a researcher”. This message correctly identifies the precarity of short, fixed-term contracts as a…
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On Monday 6 May 2024, students from both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge set up encampments in protest at their institutions’ complicity in the Israeli assault on Gaza and Israel’s longstanding violations of international law through the crimes of…
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I read with dismay, the University’s seemingly harsh reaction to the University and College Union’s (UCU) planned strike action in the next few days. The Gazette, published last week, led with the Notice that any employees participating will have their…
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3 weeks ago my #UCURising campaign poster was removed from our staff noticeboard. It must have taken some effort as it was firmly affixed with sticky tape. I’m curious as to why someone would deliberately remove it and leave all…
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Given the scale of the cost of living crisis, we welcome the announcement on 7 June of a one-off payment that many – but not all – of our colleagues at Oxford will receive. The payment is an implicit admission…
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The Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network is today launching a petition calling for improved pay and conditions for hourly-paid and stipendiary College teaching staff. The petition is addressed to the current chair and co-chair of Conference of Colleges (the Oxford Colleges’…
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Notes from an open meeting for tutors held on Monday 14 February 2022 Oxford UCU has organised a second open meeting at 1pm on Monday 14 March to report on outcomes from the meeting with ContEd management and to consider…
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There is nothing inevitable about the levels of casualisation in the higher education sector, nor has it come about by accident; it is the result of universities’ reliance on a particular business model. After adjusting for inflation, the sector has…
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Motion formally passed at an Oxford UCU General Meeting on 8 February 2022 UCU is currently in dispute with employers to prevent the further erosion of our pay and working conditions and to fight for equality (Four Fights), and to…
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Motion formally passed at Oxford UCU General Meeting on 8 February 2022 On October 31 2021, Linacre College signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SOVICO Group for a total donation of £155 million. In return, Linacre College will change…
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