We demand the cancellation of the marking boycott by the University of Brighton lecturers
We believe this to be an unacceptable escalation of protest in regards to their ongoing pay dispute with the university management. They have now decided to take our education hostage, an education that we are paying £9000 a year for. With the issues many of us have already been having with our courses (multiple cancelled lectures, a distinct lack of adequate resources, and an apparent inability to answer emails in a timely fashion just to name a few), the lecturers refusal to now mark any work submitted after April 28th is insulting and reprehensible.
As students, we once stood behind the staff of this university, as we believed their cause to be just. However, this next step in their dispute has put our advancement in our courses, and the third years abilities to graduate, in serious doubt. This is completely and totally unacceptable, and if this continues, the student body may be forced take further measures to show our our disapproval.
Updates
March 28, 2014
The university remains silent while our degrees hang in the balance. Post this link on Facebook to demand that management intervenes immediately. Email your department head today and demand they prioritize our graduation.
March 28, 2014
The administration is finally feeling the heat because of your constant pressure. Post the petition link on Facebook and email your department heads to demand they prioritize our graduation.
24 Comments
If you've got beef because your lecturers are being forced to strike and take action to safeguard their career and through that the quality of education for you and future generations, then take it up with management. They after all have forced university staff into this situation. Are you that blinkered that you can't see past the end of your nose ?
What world do you live in?? Choose their hours and pay?? Wow, what a great job. The reality is many of our tutors have been here many years with their pay getting lower and lower each year with more and more hours. How is that fair? This is a last resort unfortunately. We should pressure the Vice Chancellor (who by the way has awarded himself a 6% pay rise) instead of our lecturers.
Take it up with management and the con-dem government. Not your lecturers who resisted the rising fees. Why don't you show solidarity to them like they did to us ?
How is it acceptable that our lecturers have actually experienced a DECREASE in their wages despite working far more hours than they're contracted to? Show some solidarity!
I know that many staff share the view that this is unfair on their students. It is an action made all the more reprehensible for the fact that it is being taken without any general consultation of those it affects.
I do want to take it up with the management. Help me. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-the-elected-officers-of/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=button
SOLIDARITY to all lecturers!
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We demand the cancellation of the marking boycott by the University of Brighton lecturers
We believe this to be an unacceptable escalation of protest in regards to their ongoing pay dispute with the university management. They have now decided to take our education hostage, an education that we are paying £9000 a year for. With the issues many of us have already been having with our courses (multiple cancelled lectures, a distinct lack of adequate resources, and an apparent inability to answer emails in a timely fashion just to name a few), the lecturers refusal to now mark any work submitted after April 28th is insulting and reprehensible.
As students, we once stood behind the staff of this university, as we believed their cause to be just. However, this next step in their dispute has put our advancement in our courses, and the third years abilities to graduate, in serious doubt. This is completely and totally unacceptable, and if this continues, the student body may be forced take further measures to show our our disapproval.
Updates
March 28, 2014
The university remains silent while our degrees hang in the balance. Post this link on Facebook to demand that management intervenes immediately. Email your department head today and demand they prioritize our graduation.
March 28, 2014
The administration is finally feeling the heat because of your constant pressure. Post the petition link on Facebook and email your department heads to demand they prioritize our graduation.
24 Comments
This is disgusting behaviour by grown adults, who choose their jobs along with the hours and pay, they should not be making the students education suffer down to their life choices
If you've got beef because your lecturers are being forced to strike and take action to safeguard their career and through that the quality of education for you and future generations, then take it up with management. They after all have forced university staff into this situation. Are you that blinkered that you can't see past the end of your nose ?
What world do you live in?? Choose their hours and pay?? Wow, what a great job. The reality is many of our tutors have been here many years with their pay getting lower and lower each year with more and more hours. How is that fair? This is a last resort unfortunately. We should pressure the Vice Chancellor (who by the way has awarded himself a 6% pay rise) instead of our lecturers.
Take it up with management and the con-dem government. Not your lecturers who resisted the rising fees. Why don't you show solidarity to them like they did to us ?
How is it acceptable that our lecturers have actually experienced a DECREASE in their wages despite working far more hours than they're contracted to? Show some solidarity!
I know that many staff share the view that this is unfair on their students. It is an action made all the more reprehensible for the fact that it is being taken without any general consultation of those it affects.
I do want to take it up with the management. Help me. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-the-elected-officers-of/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=button
SOLIDARITY to all lecturers!
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This is disgusting behaviour by grown adults, who choose their jobs along with the hours and pay, they should not be making the students education suffer down to their life choices