UCU: Departmental closures at Liverpool

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes the concern regarding evidence, particularly in North West Region, of unsolicited, inappropriate and often anonymous criticism by students of academic staff via text messages, social networking sites and pigeon-hole post-cards.
Conference believes that this is a form of bullying which cannot be tolerated.
Whilst conference supports and encourages legitimate student feedback, conference believes that this needs to arise from negotiated and agreed processes in order to be fair and effective.
Conference resolves:
to instruct HEC to liaise with NUS and other appropriate organisations with a view to ending this illegitimate and disparaging practice before it becomes an embedded norm
to instruct HEC to publicise this practice to the wider membership and advise members to report institutions where this occurs
to offer support to members who have suffered as a consequence.