Goldsmiths UCU ballots against cuts
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Goldsmiths, University of London have begun a ballot for industrial action to fight a devastating programme of cuts which threatens 130 full-time equivalent posts, in reality, up to a third of all academic jobs. Such cuts will leave the college unrecognisable. It may not even survive. The cuts, laughably called “transformation” by the college bosses, have been caused by a shortfall in student numbers and what they call the “decline of certain subjects” — the arts and humanities on which Goldsmiths built its reputation. The responsibility for...