Category: News

State of Higher Education – please read the news below – all of them published just last week. Part of the list was compiled by @UUKSpin  1. University of Reading (£££ blackhole) https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/feb/09/reading-university-in-crisis-amid-questions-over-121m-land-sales 2. Swansea University (problematic Kuwait deal) https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/swansea-university-600m-joint-venture-15798126 3. Cardiff Metropolitan University (VC/DVC vanished on ‘sick leave’) https://the-eye.wales/sick-with-fear/ 4. De Montfort University (conflict […]

Jordi Lopez-Botey (caseworker and campaigner for IWGB London) will be our Guest Speaker at the AGM (Wed 13th Feb 1-3pm in LR1 Arts, with free lunch from 12.30pm outside the room). You are entitled to 2 hours of paid time off to attend – please do come! As Jordi will be on campus the entire […]

Staff at the University of Birmingham were informed this morning that the ‘New Core’ system will no longer be going live for 4th February 2019 .  In an email sent out from the Vice Chancellor’s mailbox, it was confirmed that the system launch has been postponed until June 2019 . While the email sent out […]

You are invited to a karaoke afternoon at Karaoke Box in Birmingham. Please note this is not a karaoke bar, you rent out the room and only sing in front of your group. Partners are welcome to join too! Karaoke at Karaoke Box, Birmingham (http://website.karaokebox.co.uk/birmingham/) Date: Saturday 26th January Time: 3pm-5pm Cost: £10 per person PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL […]

Run for an officer position at the next AGM! Your UNISON Annual General Meeting is taking place between 1-3pm on Wednesday 13th February in Arts Lecture Room 1. The AGM is your opportunity to raise issues that matter to you, stand for your UNISON branch committee, vote for who you want to be your branch officers, set branch policy and […]

Urgent: please respond to our questions listed at the end of the email – the answers can be very short (Y/N), or as detalied as you’d like!  You may know that the University of Birmingham has been in the national news this week. Matthew Hedges, a Durham University Research Student who is currently in an […]