F inalienable year students affected by marking boycott

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How is your final year student being affected?
Dd(dutham) will graduate on the planned date with a transcript of grades so far ,but not receive a classification until October.

But the point is still important. If most of the Modern Languages lecturers are in UCU, and the ones in soft matter physics aren’t, what’s the point of a grant income boycott? There’s no grant income for the UCU members to boycott in Modern Languages; and the physics department’s grant income would be completely unaffected. 🤷‍♀️

Targeting the REF isn't just the organisational work (though that is considerable -- somebody has to put together the submissions) but also not publishing in the first place. Instead of a marking boycott, a publishing boycott, where academics refrain from submitting publications. If this lasts long enough it would start to threaten REF submissions.

That would obviously not be enough on its own but combined with boycotting grant submissions, and other research and admin work, collectively that would pressure universities. It would not only threaten their income but their recruitment and reputation.

Yes this would all take some time, but the teaching boycotts have been dragging on for years so it's not like that is a quick fix either.

@SunnyEgg I think the feeling where I am is that the salaries would be ok if we had better working conditions. So I think our local demand would be to hire more staff so that we are not all so overworked and the students get a better education. More funding would be nice but even re-prioritising within existing funds would help.

At my university, grant/funding income is about two-thirds as much as tuition income, i.e. it's a lot of money to threaten (hundreds of millions per year).

They don't affect the bottom line though - any income you receive from grants gets spent! So don't get a grant means you don't get the income, but also that you don't have any expenditure. Your senior managers won't care, other than the impact on REF, but that's five years away.

DS’s supervisor has given assurance that his dissertation (submitted) and final exams (to be taken late May/early June) will be marked as normal and in time for graduation at the end of June. DS seems confident that this will be the case.
I feel for those DC who haven’t had similar reassurance from their tutors. Finals is not the time for uncertainty - many of our DC faced that with the A Level grade debacle.

I nearly fell off my chair laughing at this! Sitting at home recirding voice overs for their existing powerpoinrs which have then been used in subsequent years , with zero extra work Missing at least a year of exam marking!

That is absolutely not what happened.