Solidarity on the Dundee Uni picket lines today @ducuuo.bsky.social #solidarity #NoCuts #WeAreTheUniversity ✊🩷💜🩷

We held a rally to mark one-year of the financial crisis at the University of Dundee. We resolve to continue opposing compulsory lay-offs and a radical reshaping of the institution. If we fight together we win! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/... #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning. Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts! #Solidarity

I had to change my degree because of university cuts - the impact on students of the Dundee Uni crisis, and the reason @ducuuo.bsky.social is on strike #WeAreTheUniversity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Please read this article as it outlines issues raised by students following the cutting of academic and support staff, and a reduction in modules and degree specialisms. Thanks to all of them for speaking out and to the BBC for listening to them.

Our students aren’t being heard. “students aren't told anything at all." "You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 2 of our strike action.Heres some photos from yesterday’s action. Come and join us if you value jobs at the University of Dundee. #SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE

Busy @ducuuo.bsky.social picket lines on day two of their week long strike to save jobs and oppose compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #NoCompulsoryRedundancies

Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?

Day 1 of our 5 day strike done. Thanks to STV for coming along and interviewing members. Come and have a chat with us at the front of the Tower any day this week. news.stv.tv/north/dundee...

We need to stop shipping in vastly overpaid, underperforming ‘executives’ who don’t care about OUR university or OUR city. These people (in this picture) are the people who CAN save OUR university.

Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true." #UKHE www.leicester.news/university-o...

Over the past year, cuts equivalent to circa 15,000 staff members have been made in UK universities. That trend is continuing & accelerating. Hundreds of redundancies are announced every week. A *Labour* government refuses to do anything to stop thousands of job losses.

If you missed it, here’s the interim Principal talking about substantial future job cuts at University of Dundee. He refers to the number of job losses recommended in the recovery plan. This is 390FTE with 340FTE via redundancies. We believe redundancies are not necessary. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

I'm speaking about a new book project, The Dissolution of the Universities next Thursday, online c/o DECkNO at Bath. Should be full of lols www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dissol...? #ukhe

The most exhausting part of the destruction of #UKHE is the shameless denial of reality by our overlords. We're made to spend so much time on constantly reestablishing facts, and can never take their word. The weaseliness of 'we said we didn't expect, we never said we wouldn't' 🤢

@willierennie.bsky.social @maggiechapman.bsky.social @michaelmarra.bsky.social @joefitzsnp.bsky.social

Redundancies were ruled out on three occasions by the most senior staff member at the University of Dundee. Once to STV, once to staff and once in an interview with the Courier. Now they are denying they said it when in front of our elected representatives.

Oh look! Our Interim Principal is modelling lying for a living. At the risk of cutting his employees’ living.

@maggiechapman.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social We can also quote him word for word from a meeting with all staff on 1st July. “I do want to emphasises the fact that it’s a pure voluntary severance scheme. It will not be followed by a redundancy scheme. There is no secret Plan B.”

#UKHE @ucu.org.uk

Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee. He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies. Judge for yourself.

Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it? @lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6

<squints> In case you're wondering where we're at with #UKHE: senior managers are now trying to use the *anti-terrorism* mechanisms to reprimand their staff for talking with local politicians. But everything's fine. No need for government to intervene and put an end to the abuses of power.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Does the UK government want to see the end of UK Higher Ed long internationally leading?

We're excited to share what listeners can expect from the show: 
 1. SIG Co-chair Kathleen Calder from the #OU_LD team at @openuniversity.bsky.social guiding us through what thinking about #DigitalSustainability might mean.

📻 The Digital Sustainability SIG hosted by ALTc will be broadcasting from 2-3pm tomorrow, 24 October, during the Association for Learning Technology conference 2025 via the hashtag #ALTCradio 🔗 lnkd.in/eK5uZhy9.

4. Reflections about what we do & don't know about the environmental impacts of AI. 5. SIG Co-chair Paul Astles, from #OU_LD at @openuniversity.bsky.social, UK shares some resources from the Education Training Foundation for listeners working in FE. 👂Listen out for some surprises along the way.

2. A conversation with SIG Officer Geraldine Foley from @ucl.ac.uk about the #EdTech climate action toolkit. 3. A conversation with SIG Officer Edzia Carvalho (@edziac.bsky.social) from @dundee.ac.uk talking about what she sees as the grey space around the use of digital technologies.

UK universities’ campuses in China may have breached equality and free speech laws because of “pervasive” Chinese Communist Party control, according to a new report. Tash Mosheim reports #edusky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pervasive-censorship-uk-campuses-china-claims-report

The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...

When the Gillies report was published, the expectation was that governance at the University of Dundee would improve. In all truthfulness it’s got worse. Much worse.

A link to the full press release on our successful re-ballot at the University of Dundee can be found here sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/news-an...

We have voted to force management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies. The result demonstrates the anger & disappointment with the lack of progress and failure of successive leaderships at the University to deliver a sustainable way forward that protects jobs and the University’s future.

Our members have voted to support industrial action to fight against job cuts passed today! In the ballot our 72% of members were in favour of strike action, and 90% in favour of action short of strike. Turnout was 58%. Thank you to all members, reps and officials for helping us get the vote out.

“Open and transparent communication” has been the mantra of the acting Chair of Court and interim Principal since July, following the Gillies report and parliamentary evidence sessions. Well let you decide if that’s being followed.

The Courier yesterday stated that Nigel Seaton will be staying on for another year. We strongly oppose this reporting. As they mention, Court will have to give final approval But this is reported as a done deal. It isn’t! All Court members should be able to share their views at the next meeting.

The University Recovery Plan submitted by Court and UEG can now be shared. The campus unions are hosting a joint Townhall event to share the plan, so everyone can make their own judgements on what was proposed, including the number of redundancies. Join us this Thursday 12:30 in LT3 Dalhousie.

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

Visit our website, and read about our strong opposition to the recently rejected University Recovery Plan: a plan created by the short-term team in charge at University of Dundee. sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/ #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

I've written a short post on the specific way academics experience alienation at work. I also argue we must champion the inherent worth of what we do as well as its profitability. blog.matthewbarnard.phd/a-world-with... #ucu #academia

The University of Dundee has announced it will defer the 1.4% national pay rise for staff in higher education. With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.

You said there would be no redundancies on national television. Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies. Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies. m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...

#UCU members: UCU is hosting an international conference on academic freedom on 15th October! Attendance can be online or in person. You can register for it here: ucu.wufoo.com/forms/intern...

There are ~150k academics in UK universities with open-ended contracts Job losses this year are up to 20k Pressures show no sign of easing, next year is likely to be the same 40/150 =0.26 We can expect to lose up to a quarter of permanent academic jobs this over 2024 to 2026

Great ISRF article here on the unspeakable disgrace of UKHE executive management in the neoliberal era. Which stage are *you* at? isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...

#UK Very disturbing to hear that law firms are coaching UK universities to curtail rights to freedom of assembly and expression. I hope the interest of this firm is not the search for profit, as profiting from the promotion of the curtail of HHRR is despicable. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Exclusive: Trump administration axes UK university research projects. More than 20 projects at Russell Group institutions halted, freedom of information requests reveal. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Thank you Prof Seaton for confirming this.