Category: Casualisation

  • Precarity in a Pandemic Age: Opposing Fixed-Term Contracts at the University of Oxford

    UCU workshop taking place from 13.00-14.00 on Monday 16th November One third of academic workers in the UK are employed on Fixed-Term Contracts (FTCs). At the University of Oxford, a self-described ‘world leader’ in so many areas, this figure is…

  • The scandal of casualisation

    According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), in 2018 there were 72,000 staff on highly casualised ‘atypical’ academic contracts. At least 51,094 university teaching staff are on hourly-paid contracts, and at least 12,567 on zero-hours contracts. At the same…