Nottingham Administration Proposes Massive Faculty Cuts

The administration of the University of Nottingham is planning on reducing its full-time faculty by 600 beginning next January, using layoffs (redundancies) if need be. In response, the local university and college union began a “marking and assessment boycott” on Wednesday and are striking today. They may undertake a longer strike beginning in June. According to the Nottingham Post: Nottingham’s branches of the UCU, Unison and Unite [unions]—all of which represent staff at the university—have p