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Defend education. Defend your colleagues. Defend the student experience.
Profiles of staff under threat
Lloyd Pietersen
Are you a member of staff whose job is at risk? Would you like to share your story?
Are you a member of staff whose job is at risk? Would you like to share your story?
This page is dedicated to updating staff on the University of Gloucestershire’s on-going change agenda. At present this page focuses on academic staff – this is currently the most visible dispute – but we think that everybody who contributes directly to education is integral to making the university a success. We are keen to hear from all support staff – administrators, cleaners, security, porters, caterers – whether you are directly employed by the university or work for a subcontractor, whether you are a member of Unison or are not in any union. An injury to one is an injury to all. Staff who have news updates that they would like to appear on this site, please click here.
Keep yourself informed
Did you know that the average Vice-Chancellor's pay packet is now on a par with the Prime Minister's?
Did you know that the average Vice-Chancellor's pay packet is now on a par with the Prime Minister's?
- Click here to see the University accounts. The Financial Statements 2007/2008 make for interesting reading. Page 36 shows the VC's salary.
- Did you know that University Council Minutes are available for staff to view?
Frustrated? Want to shoot something? Click here.
What can YOU do?
• Join the Facebook group to oppose redundancies, ‘Support Our Lecturers’
• Join the Campaign Group We meet every week to discuss our plans to resist management strategy. We come from various campuses and from various academic disciplines.
• Talk to students. It is not a breech of contract to discuss what is already in the public domain. Pass on the address to this website and encourage debates about what is happening at the University.
• Sign our petition against compulsory redundancies and encourage others to do so.
• Email the Vice Chancellor to voice your concern, vc@glos.ac.uk
• Write to the local press, echo.news@glosmedia.co.uk
• Demand an end to compulsory redundancies now. Together we can defend education at the University of Gloucestershire.
• Join the Facebook group to oppose redundancies, ‘Support Our Lecturers’
• Join the Campaign Group We meet every week to discuss our plans to resist management strategy. We come from various campuses and from various academic disciplines.
• Talk to students. It is not a breech of contract to discuss what is already in the public domain. Pass on the address to this website and encourage debates about what is happening at the University.
• Sign our petition against compulsory redundancies and encourage others to do so.
• Email the Vice Chancellor to voice your concern, vc@glos.ac.uk
• Write to the local press, echo.news@glosmedia.co.uk
• Demand an end to compulsory redundancies now. Together we can defend education at the University of Gloucestershire.
Redundancies: Think, Say, Do Nothing?
The Vice-Chancellor and her team intend to make some of our colleagues compulsorily redundant at the end of January 2010. These colleagues are excellent and respected academics and teachers who are supported and recognised by their peers around the world. They are also good people, liked and appreciated by their students and colleagues. If they lose their livelihoods, it will not be through any fault of their own, but because those in charge of financial planning have gambled and speculated, in what Paul Bowler described as ‘A culture of “the higher the risk, the greater the reward”' (ref). Seduced by the ideology of ‘enterprise’, Professor Patricia Broadfoot and her team have sanctioned expenditure on misconceived high risk projects such as the £8.3 million investment in the now-to-be-sold London Campus (ref). As a result, the university now has the second worst debt-to-income ratio of any in the UK (ref). The financial statements for 2007/2008 show that while leading us into this crisis, the Vice-Chancellor’s annual emoluments (profits arising from employment) increased from £168,000 to £202,000: an incredible reward for failure (p-36). Amazingly, the Vice-Chancellor intends to keep her job while making redundant hard working lecturers who have performed their roles with distinction.
What is the appropriate response to this? You could keep your head down, talk quietly, and hope it won’t be you next. Teach an extra class? Work weekends. You already work weekends? Work nights. Work holidays. Teach on your research days. Get with the times.
There are more redundancies coming. Repeat after me: Think, Say, Do; it might not be you. Think, Say, Do; it might not be you.
We would be crazy to respond like that. That’s why the UCU EGM voted unanimously to ballot for strike action. If you don’t stand up for your colleagues, who will stand up for you? Vote yes to strike action.
The Vice-Chancellor and her team intend to make some of our colleagues compulsorily redundant at the end of January 2010. These colleagues are excellent and respected academics and teachers who are supported and recognised by their peers around the world. They are also good people, liked and appreciated by their students and colleagues. If they lose their livelihoods, it will not be through any fault of their own, but because those in charge of financial planning have gambled and speculated, in what Paul Bowler described as ‘A culture of “the higher the risk, the greater the reward”' (ref). Seduced by the ideology of ‘enterprise’, Professor Patricia Broadfoot and her team have sanctioned expenditure on misconceived high risk projects such as the £8.3 million investment in the now-to-be-sold London Campus (ref). As a result, the university now has the second worst debt-to-income ratio of any in the UK (ref). The financial statements for 2007/2008 show that while leading us into this crisis, the Vice-Chancellor’s annual emoluments (profits arising from employment) increased from £168,000 to £202,000: an incredible reward for failure (p-36). Amazingly, the Vice-Chancellor intends to keep her job while making redundant hard working lecturers who have performed their roles with distinction.
What is the appropriate response to this? You could keep your head down, talk quietly, and hope it won’t be you next. Teach an extra class? Work weekends. You already work weekends? Work nights. Work holidays. Teach on your research days. Get with the times.
There are more redundancies coming. Repeat after me: Think, Say, Do; it might not be you. Think, Say, Do; it might not be you.
We would be crazy to respond like that. That’s why the UCU EGM voted unanimously to ballot for strike action. If you don’t stand up for your colleagues, who will stand up for you? Vote yes to strike action.
