Roehampton University strike: Workload reaches intolerable levels as 25% of staff are cut
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2022-12-14

Roehampton University in South-West London has been well-known over the years for the quality of many of its courses and the chances it gives to working class students - but all that is in danger now from a management who has cut 25% of the workforce after blowing money on shiny new buildings, other vanity projects and eye-wateringly high salaries for the management. 

Workload has now reached intolerably high levels, casualisation and precarious contracts are widespread, high quality courses are being cut and students are no longer receiving the quality of education they are forced to pay so much for. 

Staff are now striking in a key struggle in Higher Education that is symptomatic of so much of what has gone wrong since the marketisation of the sector with student fees. 

As staff and students explain in the video, they are now fighting for the future of education itself - and a victory at Roehampton will give confidence to every other university threatened with the same attacks.