MAB

This is to let you know that we are having an organising General Meeting on the MAB progress, what’s happening in exam boards, and what’s happening with the pledging scheme.

Last Friday, a packed meeting of UCL’s Academic Board voted to oppose plans for an industrial-scale mitigation strategy.

UCL have set a deadline, to declare whether or not you have participated in the MAB – of this Friday, June 9! Read our advice to members here.

Next week will be a very important one for the current Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) industrial action at UCL.  Please come to an Extraordinary MAB Organising Meeting (MABers welcome Tuesday 6 June at 1pm.  Please register to receive a zoom link for this meeting (link via email). The agenda will include: The meeting is open to…

We have received a lot of questions in the last few days about how UCL is responding to the MAB, and what UCU is doing nationally to reopen negotiations. We have included an update on both of these issues below (Appendices 2 and 3).

“As a student, I support the boycott completely. Our professors are what makes university great, and it’s a disgrace that UCL management are maintaining such exploitative working conditions.” – 3rd Year Sociology Student

Information on actions relating to the MAB we are asking members to take, our latest version of the FAQs on the MAB, and an update on how we are fighting UCL’s punitive salary deductions

An urgent reminder about a change to UCL’s MAB reporting date, report from Thursday’s Emergency General Meeting and information on the upcoming “Solidari-teas”

This is a quick reminder of our Emergency General Meeting today, 1-2pm, including an update on UCL’s position on MAB deductions and the motions for debate

An update on the Marking and Assessment Boycott and UCL’s approach to it