AUT Strike
May. 5th, 2006 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolThere is, for those that don't know, a lecturers strike. Well, not quite a strike, but a lot of Schools are refusing to mark any work handed in, and the same goes for exams. Some exams haven't even ben written yet. This is because academics are truly fucked over in the tersm of pay - a 40% decrease in real terms - and rather want to get some money out of the top-up fees situation.
I support this. No, honest, I do.
The problem is, the AUT has sort of forgotten about us wee Scottish students. We have our exams earlier than the vast majority of Englush universities because we finish a lot earlier. Basically, my exams start in a week. All my papers are set (THANK GOD) but I have no guarantee of them actually being marked. If that doesn't happen, I may well have to come back to university two weeks early to sit them, which... well... just, no.
There was talk of a local settlement, but the AUT sort of shipwrecked it, in thatit's not happening. Our fourth-years are graduating with a 'special degree' with is basically enough to get them on stage but they still have to come back. This is Bollocks, in my humble opinion.
As such, I am going on a protest to show that students are severely unhappy with the fact that this bloody protest by the lecturers is going nowhere. It's against incompetent management on all sides.
St Mary's Quad, 1pm, wear gowns if you've got them. Be there, St A's people.
I'm going to go and get some lunch for the energy and then I'm off.
~Hathy_Col~
I support this. No, honest, I do.
The problem is, the AUT has sort of forgotten about us wee Scottish students. We have our exams earlier than the vast majority of Englush universities because we finish a lot earlier. Basically, my exams start in a week. All my papers are set (THANK GOD) but I have no guarantee of them actually being marked. If that doesn't happen, I may well have to come back to university two weeks early to sit them, which... well... just, no.
There was talk of a local settlement, but the AUT sort of shipwrecked it, in thatit's not happening. Our fourth-years are graduating with a 'special degree' with is basically enough to get them on stage but they still have to come back. This is Bollocks, in my humble opinion.
As such, I am going on a protest to show that students are severely unhappy with the fact that this bloody protest by the lecturers is going nowhere. It's against incompetent management on all sides.
St Mary's Quad, 1pm, wear gowns if you've got them. Be there, St A's people.
I'm going to go and get some lunch for the energy and then I'm off.
~Hathy_Col~
