From theory, action.

So:

• Individual course student advisors have been removed.  There’s a more limited number of people, who have to tackle a broader knowledge of all course structures instead of intimate knowledge of a few, available to help students with problems, and rather than being based near the faculty they’re in a centralised location on the other side of campus.  This is to make things better.
• The lecturers were pushed down a pay grade and given more work to do.  The fact that 4 lecturers from the politics department took voluntary redundancy is good because it wasn’t forced redundancy (lets ignore the fact that they were essentially coerced into doing it) and hey! They’re hiring two new ones in December which can maybe start in February, so there’s been only a substantial effect on the courses of students.  Never mind those two modules that were dropped for third years.
• The fact that the redundancies came so close to the start of term, so that those two new lecturers couldn’t be hired until mid term, is the fault of bureaucratic red tape of trade union laws.  Which get thrown up by those pesky trade unions, trying to defend the interests of their members.  It has nothing to do with the fact that the university is cutting people’s jobs and pay while increasing their work load.

I am forever so, so happy when management come to tell us how they’re helping us with our courses.

NO TO COLIN OFFLER, NOT MY BLOCK OF 15!

Colin Offler, despite being perfectly happy to enhance the democratic decrepitude of UWESU, thinks he should be on the NUS Block of 15, the national executive of the NUS. Somehow he seems to think that a spectre of suspicious electoral activity, a complete lack of any real activity and simply kowtowing to anything that the UWE board of governors asks is the sort of CV that makes him good for the position.

I urge anybody who follows me to contact delegates from their respective institutions and urge them not to support this careerist in his bid to take his tragic incompetence to a national level.

He’s held UWESU back for 2 years, don’t let him hold back the NUS as well.

dumbassfils:

occupy a stately manor home

occupy a literal castle with turrets and suits of armor

occupy disneyland

Unfortunately, St Matts was built in the 1800s as a teaching college and has never been a stately manor.  It has no suits of armour :(  And we only occupied the buildings built more recently in the 60s or 70s, so we didn’t get to hang out in the turrets …

But yes, Disneyland is our next target!

(Source: philosophy-of-praxis)