UCU: Fight the Funding Crisis in Higher Education

Motion

Motion text: HESC notes:
1. over sixty HE institutions are facing job losses, and course and department
closures;
2. public funding for higher education is now inadequate.
HESC believes that:
a. job losses are unnecessary and will lead to increased workload and stress for
those who keep their jobs;
b. the higher education funding model should be overhauled so that the sector
is run as a public service.
HESC instructs HEC to organise:
i. a UK-wide campaign with other unions and the NUS to fight cuts in HE,
demanding an overhaul of HE funding with free tuition and maintenance
grants for all students;
ii. submission of a claim to UCEA in support of protection for all jobs, degrees,
and departments;
iii. a ballot on industrial action should UCEA not implement protection against
redundancies and closures.