1) Update: ‘Unnecessary F2F, In-Person Teaching’ Dispute and Workload Reduction Bristol UCU negotiators Branch President James Thompson and Branch Secretary Jamie Melrose had a meeting yesterday with University Officers at which positive proposals were made concerning both our current branch dispute over ‘unnecessary face-to-face in-person teaching’ [link] and ‘What To Drop? – The UoB Workload Crisis’ [link]. On […]
Month: February 2021
1) Dispute Update – F2F, In-Person Teaching Bristol UCU Executive Committee met yesterday and decided to conclude the Dispute Process. Although the University has made welcome changes to individual risk assessment and programme review, University Officers are still not prepared to guarantee that face-to-face, in-person teaching will not return before the Easter vacation, or before the end […]
1) What To Drop? – The UoB Workload Crisis Members are still encouraged to submit concrete workload proposals on what can be stopped, postponed or parked. Contact ucu-office@bristol.ac.uk. Branch reps look forward to discussing these proposals at a meeting with University Officers tomorrow. — 2) UCU NEC Elections Elections to UCU’s National Executive Committee (NEC) are […]
1) Dispute Latest At our final Dispute Resolution meeting on Monday, Branch Negotiators, while welcoming a host of positive changes banked so far, for example, in the Risk Assessment process and regarding online programme requests, asked the University to commit to online teaching until at least the Easter vacation. This would see the University join […]