Nottingham University Management Messages

Last week I posted about the dire situation at Nottingham University and particularly in the School of Physics & Astronomy there. I since learned that I didn’t get the nunbers quite right: it appears that there are 71 staff in the School and 56 received notices that their jobs are at risk and that the intention is athat about 20 jobs will be lost. This includes academic and technical staff. The open letter and petition here has already garnered over 2000 signatures, but more can’t do any harm. I’ve heard also that staff at Notitngham are about to start a Marking and Assessment Boycott in response to the plans. This seems entirely reasonable to me and I would support further industrial action too. I mentioned in my previous post that Nnot all those in receipt of an “at risk” letter will actually be made redundant, but the intention is clearly to scare people into leaving in order to save on redundancy payments. No doubt some positions will be saved by retirements and voluntary…