81’ — Maybe Spurs’ best chance of the game. Some international students are required to have their attendance and engagement monitored as part of their visa conditions. So, these staff will work to their notional hours of 37.5 hours a week, and no longer. If you have any specific concerns about particularly important laboratory work or other time-sensitive activities, then you should contact your Head of School. If we’re going to use him, let’s think about using him as Aurier-lite. A spokeswoman for the group Universities UK said: "We are hopeful that the dispute can be resolved without industrial action; but plans are in place to ensure that any potential disruption to students and staff is minimised. 2018 – 2021. And Baroness Valerie Amos, director of SOAS, University of London, recently emphasised the importance of more black representation within the country’s higher education system. To compound this injustice, existing management have been slotted into posts, whilst most academic staff will have to fight for lower paid Professional Services roles through application forms and formal interviews! Questions about why the strike is happening, Questions about strike days including picket lines, Questions about the impact of the strike on your academic work, Questions about where to go for further information, support, or to make a complaint, Find out more information about the background to, and to understand the industrial action, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Monday 24, Tuesday 25, and Wednesday 26 February, Monday 2, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4, and Thursday 5 March, Monday 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Thursday 12, and Friday 13 March. Easy save for the keeper. Staff on a picket line cannot prevent other members of the University community (other staff, students or visitors) who are not on strike from accessing the campus as usual. As a student you can, of course, choose not to cross a picket line, but you will need to consider and take responsibility for the precise impact that this decision may have on your own studies. UCU believes these aims are also in the wider interest of the University. In the circumstances, and having reviewed matters carefully, the University will not be providing a fee refund, or financial reimbursement generally, to students where adequate and reasonable steps have been taken to replace lost learning opportunities. You will be informed in good time if there are any deadline changes. Tottenham Hotspur played their second preseason friendly match in two days today, this time welcoming Championship club Birmingham City to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. There are 9 companies in the BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY corporate family. If you have any other queries that you think we should add to our frequently asked questions then please let us know by e-mail to: strikeconcerns@contacts.bham.ac.uk. 15’ — Chance for Spurs! If you would like to find out more about the background to the pensions dispute please visit the intranet site or the USS Employers website. However where a student has incurred significant additional cost as a result of rearranged teaching (e.g. Solidarity forever!”. Subscribe to MLive.com. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Academic staff who strike do not have to inform the university in advance that they are striking and so we will not always be able to inform you that this is going to happen. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. There was a 9% fall in the numbers who had applied for courses, according to admissions service UCAS. Where any content or assessment of learning outcomes is aligned with professional body accreditation, we will ensure that this content is covered within rearranged sessions. Before arriving to campus, students were supposed to be given a COVID-19 test at home and could only move into their dorm if they had a negative result. 89’ — GOAL! Your lecturer might tell you in advance that they either will or will not be teaching on a strike day but the legal position is that they are not obliged to tell the University in advance.