"We should focus on what unites us"
Q) Could you tell us about the anti-cuts campaigning you're involved in at your workplace? My college is being cut by £2.5 million - £2 million from adult and £550k from 16-18 provision. This is a 10% cut, and as well as threatening significant job losses, is going to critically damage our capacity to provide decent education for our community. The branch has voted unanimously to ballot for strike action in the event of compulsory redundancies. I’m Branch Secretary of the UCU at our college where the local MP is David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education. He embodies the complete failure of...