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Â鶹¹ÙÍø president's outlines challenges to UK HE at major international conference

3 November 2012

Â鶹¹ÙÍø president Kathy Taylor outlined the three main challenges to higher education in the UK and the ways in which Â鶹¹ÙÍø has sought to defend the academic profession.

At the Education International's , held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25-27 September 2012, Kathy Taylor, Â鶹¹ÙÍø's president, outlined the three main challenges currently facing higher education in the UK. These are that:

  • the government's drive to reduce public spending means that less direct public funding is available for higher education and research
  • the UK government's attack on pay and conditions generally, and those of public sector workers in particular, is putting pressure on academic pay, pensions and job security
  • the ethos and values that underpin higher education and research are under attack from privatisation and marketisation.

Action taken to defend the academic profession by Â鶹¹ÙÍø has included:  

  • industrial action
  • working with other trade unions and education partners
  • organising demonstrations
  • fighting a high profile political and media campaign
  • launching a public-awareness campaign on the need for greater investment in higher education in the UK
  • promoting alternatives to neo-liberalism and austerity.

The Vandals at the Gate: Defending the profession in an age of austerity—the view from the UK, Kathy Taylor President, Â鶹¹ÙÍø [64kb]

 

Last updated: 29 October 2015

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