Staff at Goldsmiths University of London remain on strike as the new academic year starts. The dispute is fundamentally about job cuts but escalated as management responded to lecturers boycotting part of their role by cutting their pay completely. This has now been going on for four months.
There are pickets outside the main building on Lewisham Way SE14 from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm, Monday to Friday. Watch out for 'teach outs' and other sessions. For instance, the School of Art are offering a Solidarity Nail Bar on Wednesday.
The financial crisis in higher education is getting worse, partly driven by restrictions on international students imposed to appease anti-immigration voters. It does increasingly feel that it is not just jobs that are under threat, bad as that is, but the spaces in higher education for learning and critical thinking. Whole subject areas in arts, social sciences and humanities are being devalued and courses slashed.
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