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DON'T throw away that fat @ucu envelope containing your ballot for VP(HE). This is crucial post, whose occupant will chair HEC from Sept 2020 to May 2022. VP(HE) also has

If university students aren't tested every 2-3 days, "colleges are very likely to fall prey to outbreaks that will place vulnerable people on campus & in the surrounding community at

Of great significance for university shielding policies: even taking health conditions into account "the biggest influence on a persons COVID-19 risk is age. The risk from age is actually an

Every @ucu member will be charged £15. 120,000 members x £15 = £1,800,000! So the @UCULeft-controlled HEC blew a huge hole in union finances, by calling members out on 22

Communication from @ucu to members regarding branch consultations on Four Fights & #USS is utterly shambolic. Email to members from GS @DrJoGrady to announce this arrives in our inboxes on

.@UniofOxford prof Deborah Cameron notesa key respect in which small group teaching is a greater Covid risk than large lectures, casting doubt on @Cambridge_Uni's moving large lectures online while keeping

The high number of deaths of London bus drivers is of a piece with other evidence that prolonged exposure in enclosed spaces to someone infected w/ coronavirus is unsafe. 2

Some thoughts on this long, informative thread by @Sam_Marsh101. I'll limit myself here to comments on the decision to plough ahead w the as at 31 March 2020 valuation. 1/https://twitter.com/Sam_Marsh101/status/1248151207153106945