Emergency Conference - Defending Education Under Lockdown

Conference and Student-Staff Assembly II

10:00-13:00 Saturday 16th January

  • The Opening Plenary begins at 10:00am

  • At 11:00am, you should click on the appropriate workshop title below (this is also the Zoom link), to leave the plenary and go to the workshop of your choice

  • At 12:00pm, you should use your original Zoom link for the Emergency Student - Staff Assembly

  • To register for the conference, and get your link to the Opening Plenary, click here

  • For info about the conference on facebook (please share this), click here

 

Black Lives Matter and Fighting for Equality

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

A session on the fight for equality and decolonising the curriculum

 

Plagued, Blamed, Forgotten: What’s Happened to our Education?

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

This is a session specially organised by and for students

 

Action During Lockdown: Striking and Making ASOS Bite

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

Organised by Brighton and Goldsmiths, and other fighting branches

Taking Control of FE, ACE and Prison Education During Lockdown

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

PLEASE RETURN TO ORIGINAL PLENARY AS THIS LINK ISN’T WORKING!

 

Fighting Precarity and Casualisation

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

Facilitated by activists from CoronaContracts, Fractionals For Fair Play (SOAS), and other anti-casualisation activists

 

The fight for health and safety

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

A workshop about working and studying safely at home and on campus

Using the Law Effectively

 

Workshop: 11:00 - 12:00

Organised by branches who have explored the ways in which legislation can be used by trade unionists

 

Final Plenary: Emergency Student - Staff Assembly

 

12:00 - 13:00

Details and speakers to be confirmed

Use your original conference zoom link

 

Resources

 

We will be using a GoogleDoc to record ideas during the workshops - click here

This document would be a good place for you to post model motions, web links, and Twitter handles to use after the event.

If you have enjoyed the conference and would like to help us to build solidarity for union branches in dispute and protesting students, join our mailing list here. No spam! We also meet at 5:30 every Wednesday on zoom to organise solidarity events.

Solidarity, the heart of our unions.

Solidarity with UCU at the University of Brighton

Strike days and solidarity activities will be posted here

Click here for more information about the dispute