UCU: Privatisation in higher education

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes that:
i) UCU policy is to reverse the casualisation of staff teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Privatisation will make such casualisation more likely;
ii) Privatisation is a major threat to national bargaining;
iii) If English language teaching can be outsourced, so too can introductory courses or support services or whole degree programmes. Everyone in higher education has an interest in fighting these early privatisations;
iv) New Labour has earmarked billions for the new Trident programme. The money's there for HE to be 100 % publicly funded however the political will isn't there;

Conference calls upon the leadership of our union:
i) To organise a national demonstration, at Oxford Brookes or a similarly threatened institution, against the privatisation of language centres

Proposing body: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU); University of Birmingham