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  • Marking boycott and negotiations update

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    Negotiators Update Negotiations with UEG on our Four Fights and USS dispute are currently ongoing. As a reminder, our demands have been made available online via Padlet. We submitted a draft of a joint statement on USS and are now working towards a more robust third draft. Our lead negotiators, Jo Pawlik and Jackie Grant,…

  • UCU Sussex votes to support campaign for resignation of external examiners

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    UUK and the VC’s have recently voted to implement cuts to USS benefits, averaging 35%. 93 institutions voted in favour of that decision including the University of Sussex. We need to pressure these institutions to change their positions, and ensure that the robbery of members’ pensions does not go unanswered. To that end, at its…

  • Solidarity with staff and students of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

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    As Sussex UCU we stand in solidarity with staff and students of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, to defend academic freedoms. At its Emergency General Meeting on 14 January, Sussex UCU (University and College Union) Branch passed a motion supporting colleagues and students in Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. The university’s long-standing tradition of the democratic selection…

  • The Free Black University Fund

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    “Education is at the heart of growth and transformation in our society. Today we stand at a critical juncture in our collective history – things cannot continue the same after this moment. It is imperative we focus on what the production of knowledge looks like after this point.” – Melz Owusu, The Free Black University…

  • UCU Sussex Anti-Racist Action Plan 2020

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    Following our branch meeting on anti-racist organising last week, a working group has formed to develop an action plan which we now share below and as a downloadable PDF here. This plan represents a starting place for dismantling structures of white supremacy at Sussex. We see this as a broad collective project and would like…

  • The McGettigan Report

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    Today UCU Sussex publishes a report on University of Sussex’s finances commissioned from Andrew McGettigan, independent expert on university finances and author of The Great University Gamble. The report is non-technical, clear and concise. We recommend everyone with an interest in the future of the University, and more broadly of UK Higher Education, to read…

  • Joint campus union statement on University of Sussex Financial Review Guidelines

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    On Wednesday 25 March, a set of ‘Financial Review Guidelines’ were emailed to all Heads of School and other budget holders at the University of Sussex, and then shared to a number of staff. This communication caused a considerable amount of anxiety to those who received it, as it contained proposals to ‘terminate’ some temporary…