Lobby of Senate on Thursday, April 23rd.
All welcome!

Check your emails for our notice of strike action.
Our FAQs about our industrial action can be viewed here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/strike-quest...

Save the date!

Where on earth is the Office for Students. These courses have been advertised, applicants have been engaging with the advertised material.

The Consumer Protection Law as applied to #UKHE (🤢) declares that universities have to be accurate in their information from the first contact with applicants.

Languages are so important. Students also learn cultural awareness, empathy, criticality, communication skills and more. The tendency of universities to target them for closure is ignorant and short-sighted.

There’s so much more to learning a language than ‘learning a language’.

Hundreds of students' UCAS offers now meaningless as university shuts courses The closure of the modern languages and film studies degrees will lead to 17 job cuts and almost 300 prospective students having their offers rescinded, a union says

"The decision will make the East Midlands a "cold spot" for languages, potentially creating a "crisis" in the provision of qualified secondary school modern foreign language teachers."

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

EGM next week!

Snapshots from today's protest against staff cuts, an incredible display of solidarity and support from many student groups.
(Photos courtesy of www.instagram.com/amplifyprote...)

All members are invited to our General Meeting next Wednesday, followed by a protest outside Senate at 1pm; on Wednesday, Senior Management will ask Senate to recommend the closure of Modern Languages and Film Studies.

Reminder!

All members are invited to our General Meeting next Wednesday, followed by a protest outside Senate at 1pm; on Wednesday, Senior Management will ask Senate to recommend the closure of Modern Languages and Film Studies.

Ballot results are out!
71.47% in favour of strike action
73.44% in favour of action short of a strike
51.77% turnout

Post by Tuesday at the latest!!

Post by Tuesday at the latest!!

Your vote is important for our fight!

On the pickets tomorrow:

Tomorrow marks Day 28 of @leicesterucu.bsky.social strike in a bitter fight to save academic and professional services jobs. We know that if we don’t succeed, already high workloads will explode. Members post your ballot to extend our mandate!