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Branch News
DWP protest, Norwich
There is a protest in Norwich on Friday 30th, as part of the national Reclaiming our Futures week of action by Disabled People Against Cuts
A day of local protest at DWP/Jobcentreplus in Norwich
Jobcentre Plus, Kiln House, Pottergate, Norwich, NR2 1BZ
30th August 2013
12:30pm – 2pm
- Close ATOS inaccessible building
- Scrap Work Capability Assessments
- Scrap the Bedroom Tax
- Stop the closure of the Independent Living Fund
2013 AGM June 5
Don’t forget to come along to the UCU @ UEA AGM on Weds 5th June – 12.30 Arts 0.100
- Find out who’s been elected to the committee
- Hear the President’s report of branch activity this year
- Hot off the press report from UC U Congress 2013
- Workload discussion led by Regional Officer Lydia Richards
Don’t miss it & bring a friend!
Get climate change back IN the curriculum!
Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, has proposed that climate change be removed from the national curriculum. This should not be allowed to happen. Nobody should leave school without some basic knowledge of the anthropogenic causes of climate change and its likely irreversible consequences for human beings and the whole planet.
This issue is of relevance to higher education for two reasons. Firstly, such an understanding is necessary for the proper study of many subjects at university, and secondly, future teachers receive their professional education in universities.
On Tuesday, April 16th People & Planet submitted their formal curriculum consultation response with a focus on the geography curriculum and the citizenship curriculum, urging for key issues and concepts such as climate change, sustainability and active global citizenship to be retained. UCU, NUS, PCS, UNISON and TSSA all also signed this:
http://peopleandplanet.org/climate-consultation
Please read it to find out more information on the campaign. It is not too late to join in. If you click on the link you will find the template of a letter to Mr Gove. Please consider writing to him.
For more information about UCU’s work on the environment and climate change, see: http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3386