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A student-staff rally took place at Sheffield Student’s Union on Friday 12 December, marking the end of a prolonged period of UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Hayes, President of the UCU Sheffield branch and a senior lecturer in Law, spoke about how the rally is a \u201cgreat opportunity to hear what\u2019s going on for staff and students.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cWe are fighting against job cuts and increasing workload and the reduction of the quality of education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial action took place in protest of compulsory redundancies, excessive workloads and cost-cutting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Hayes feels staff “are being asked to do more and more and more, with less and less and less.” He is particularly concerned about the quality of education on offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students, who are already battling high tuition fees in a cost of living crisis, faced 16 days of interrupted teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green Party councillor Brian Holmshaw spoke at the rally, representing the University’s ward of Broomhill and Sharrow Vale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am here to support this meeting, a united front against the proposed cuts to staffing and against the closure of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses,” said Mr Holmshaw. \u201cWe are against cultural vandalism of removing University courses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students and staff gather on the Student Union concourse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The University has been in regular dialogue with UCU to try to find a resolution to the dispute and have made a number of offers to try and avoid industrial action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One anonymous student said: “I am terrified about the future of my course.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The offers included a commitment to making no further compulsory redundancies for an extended period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCU members have not yet accepted these offers and continue to take strike action and ‘action short of a strike’, including refusing to mark assessments outside of their official working hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently the University of Nottingham announced the suspension of entries into language courses, further concerning UCU members who worry the risk of redundancies is only getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, the University of Nottingham also\u00a0announced more than 250 non-academic roles could be cut<\/a>, with the vice-chancellor saying it was “grappling with significant financial challenges.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current mandate for strike action began on 30 September and will last for six months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on this to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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