Author: oxforducu
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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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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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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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We believe that the University of Oxford’s decision to accept £6 million from the Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust, along with donations from the same trust to St. Peter’s College (£5 million) and Lady Margaret Hall (£260,000) fail to uphold the…
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Hi everyone. I’m Tom White, your new Oxford UCU anti-casualisation officer, taking over from Richard Bell. Some of you will know me from the picket lines in 2018, 2019 and 2020. I was joint anti-casualisation officer from September 2020 to…
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Colleagues in Oxford and Leeds have collated a short briefing consolidating the evidence base on safe return to on-site working. This briefing emphasises that key to effective prevention of COVID-19 is acknowledgement of its predominantly airborne mode of transmission. This…
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By David Chivall On 7th September 2020 there were 15 deaths from covid-19 in the UK, 3,857 new cases of the disease and no vaccine had yet made it out of clinical trials. On the same day the Vice-Chancellor announced…
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