Exeter UCU

What a MAMMOTH result. 100% the product of everyone's efforts over the summer.

And our members who voted. You signalled your solidarity, you drew a red line, and you handed us both the sword and the shield to keep defending our brilliant university.

What a MAMMOTH result. 100% the product of everyone's efforts over the summer.

The early mobilising in that first VONC, and those speeches still ringing in our ears. The organising from branch and region that launched the dispute and won that ground-shifting vote to ballot. The webpage, the emails, the blogs, the spreadsheets, and everything in between.

While there is some relief in the threat of compulsory redundancies being removed, we are also thinking of the amazing colleagues we are losing through so-called voluntary redundancy. These colleagues are experts in their fields, they are our academic community, and they are fantastic educators

who have inspired generations of students. Their leaving is a loss for our university. Pressures on remaining staff will increase and students’ experience will be impacted. And all this time, we haven’t seen convincing arguments as to why so many members of staff should have to go.

The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

Students are facing the consequences too, with concerns about the availability of modules, staff and the degree experience they signed up for. Meanwhile, many staff are exhausted and experiencing the mental and physical impact of months of uncertainty.

The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

🚨 KEY DATES FOR THE POSTAL BALLOT 🚨 Jot them down, add them to your Google calendars, write them in flames a mile high (for any Senior Management reading this, that's a joke 😇)

🚨🚨 E-consultation on strike action in your inboxes!! 🚨🚨 This morning you will have gotten an email from us with the subject line '#DefendExeterUni EUCU Industrial Action consultative ballot.' 💌 It is VERY IMPORTANT you vote through the link that email!! [1/3]

In the email you'll find a link to vote on your preparedness to engage in strike action! This is not the same as voting on taking strike action just yet, but instead an important step in showing our branch's readiness to vote in a later formal ballot. [2/3]

Missed the VC’s speech? Lucky you. Here’s the financial highlights! 1/ Confirmed Exeter uni is STILL IN SURPLUS for 25/26 2/ The top 16 execs at Exeter have a combined pay packet of nearly £4m 3/ The VC has a pay packet of nearly £400k a year 4/ Our cash reserves are going up, year on year [1/2]

Scenes from our VC’s climate conference talk ‼️ You can’t please all the people all the time. But as our senior management are learning if you lack a moral compass, make bad decisions and remain aloof and refuse to listen to the upset you cause, you certainly CAN alienate all the people all the time.

Nearly half of the academic staff in the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the Penryn Campus are now at risk of redundancy. Putting your world-leading staff at risk is not sustainable! 🌍🔥[1/4]

The Environment and Sustainability Institute is ranked as one of the top 20 environmental Research Institutes in the world! It produces groundbreaking research drawing on biosciences, geosciences, engineering, business, maths, the humanities and social sciences. [3/4]

Nearly half of the academic staff in the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the Penryn Campus are now at risk of redundancy. Putting your world-leading staff at risk is not sustainable! 🌍🔥[1/4]