We send our solidarity to the many thousands of university students and staff across the world who are taking a stand against their institutions' complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

Full statement 👇

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UCU Portsmouth members check your email for an invitation to next week's branch meeting, see you there.

Today Jo Grady has written to Tertiary Education Union & NTEU to discuss how their success can aid our fight for academic freedom.

REF undermines the autonomy of researchers and must be stopped 👇

University vice-chancellor enjoys a 'bumper pay rise' amidst redundancies portsmouth.co.uk/education/univ…

The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral dlvr.it/T5MDrG

University of Portsmouth: We are putting 398 staff at risk of redundancy.

Also University of Portsmouth: We are spending £250m on new buildings🤯

Completely unacceptable, members are now being consulted on taking strike action.

UCU Portsmouth

portsmouth.co.uk/education/stri…

Look out for a techno-feudalisation of higher education with private entities providing one-year experiential learning services freed from both the institutional constraints and quality controls of large public institutions.

Academics made redundant in this national reshaping of universities will be offered casualised contracts in the coming years.

It's an overwhelming YES to strike action at Goldsmiths UCU

With 130 jobs on the line we will fight back against these devastating cuts ✊

Read more 👇

ucu.org.uk/article/13528/…

🚨 BREAKING: Northumbria University management have backed down from compulsory redundancy threats to academic staff after we balloted for strike action.

Uni bosses across the country should take note: our members will organise to defend their jobs ✊
ucu.org.uk/article/13527/…

The University of Portsmouth has become the latest UK institution to announce redundancies as part of what it is calling an “academic reset” that could also see faculties merged, writes Tom Williams Thomas Williams bit.ly/4cwPc62

Staff are more important than buildings