Sean Wallis – for UCU Vice President
For a stronger and more democratic UCU led by ordinary members
Regi Pilling and Sean Wallis We can’t say we’ve not been warned. The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ‘Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ (ICE) agents have shocked people across the world. ICE has terrorised communities from LA to Minneapolis and children as young as 2 have been detained. A wave of anti-ICE protests… Continue reading Stand with Minnesota – Stand Up to Farage
The treatment of the Palestinian people is the defining question of the decade. I wrote this article before the High Court ruled that the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Now Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said she wants to appeal the judgement. The police are still investigating people for alleged offences. This persecution of… Continue reading Palestine is still the issue
Introduction Higher Education in the UK is in the throes of a three-fold existential crisis. The first faultline concerns the much-discussed chronic crisis of university profitability under the government-backed funding system. In 2011, a home undergraduate student fee of £9,000 obtained a surplus of around £2,000 per student against the average cost of tuition. When… Continue reading The Triple Threat to UK Higher Education: Market, Trump and ‘AI’