UCU: Maximising political influence for a stable and fair HE sector

Motion

Motion title: Maximising political influence for a stable and fair HE sector

Motion text: Conference believes:
1. Ongoing crises require a coherent, democratically informed political strategy,
maximising all avenues to secure a stable, accessible HE and research sector
2. We must lobby for progressive change at the General Election and beyond,
holding MPs to account
Conference asks that UCU’s general election work includes developing
articulations of existing UCU policy including (not limited to):
a. Proper public funding for HE from taxation and employer levies to address
endemic instability
b. Addressing the damaging impact of competition between institutions & over
recruitment of students in some HEIs at the expense of others
c. Long term stable budgets that facilitate and require institutional planning to
maintain disciplines and departments with stable employment on sector-wide
terms and conditions
d. Ending costly, time consuming, damaging exercises including REF and TEF.