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Editorial: The End of the Year Show

SRHE

Recent years have seen previous strikes, days of action, marking and assessment boycotts and more, but nothing quite like this. So the marking and assessment boycott continues, as ‘action short of a strike’ (ASOS). Their progression to further study or employment may also be on hold, if as so often it depends on final results.

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A pantomime without a happy ending

SRHE

The USS pumpkin is miraculously transformed into a golden pension and the student mice turn into horses, although there do seem to be fewer of them. In despair Dick strikes out again, accompanied by Freedom of Speech Bill. Suddenly the UCU Fairy Godmother appears and declares “You shall go to the Election Ball”. Dick Whittington.

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Talking across the picket line

LSE Higher Education Blog

With UK academics in the midst of 18 days of industrial action over pay, pensions, workload, and casualisation, we wanted to create a space to hear, understand, and engage meaningfully with different points of view around the strikes. ” Alexander Douglas, University of St Andrews Read more “I’m very proud to be striking. .”