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Following or reposting definitely doesn't always equate to endorsing. Sometimes it is just morbid curiosity. Views all my own.
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Waterfall, John Knox's pulpit, Fife.
December 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Heriot-Watt Scholar provide online learning to Scottish schools, colleges, & to HW students

You, your children or your students may have used it.

You can help secure Scholar for future learners. Use the form to speak out for a unique learning service👇

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Support for Scholar - Scotland's National Digital Learning Service
UCU, Unite and UNISON are jointly coordinating an effort to gather notes of endorsement for Scholar, a national digital learning service, used by senior phase learners across Scotland, for over a gene...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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It's important not to normalise spreading germs around. If someone is ill with respiratory symptoms encourage them to self-isolate and not attend in person any work or social events (if they can afford it)... or at the very least wear a mask. Haven't we learnt anything from the pandemic?
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thanks again for all your support @maggiechapman.bsky.social ✊🏽
Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The Interim Principal clearly said on STV News there would be no redundancies. Now he is trying to make hundreds of us redundant. Was that misleading people? Was it lying? Total ineptitude?

Whatever it is, staff and students have no trust in this ‘leadership’.
Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Solidarity to all of Dundee’s workers as they strike in the face of some of most caricaturishly mismanagement this sector has seen to date (although god knows the competition is heating up). May this venerable institution survive and thrive; victory to the strikers!
Day 1 of our 5 day strike done. Thanks to STV for coming along and interviewing members.

Come and have a chat with us at the front of the Tower any day this week.

news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Day 2 of our strike action.Heres some photos from yesterday’s action.

Come and join us if you value jobs at the University of Dundee.

#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Busy @ducuuo.bsky.social picket lines on day two of their week long strike to save jobs and oppose compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #NoCompulsoryRedundancies
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We need to stop shipping in vastly overpaid, underperforming ‘executives’ who don’t care about OUR university or OUR city. These people (in this picture) are the people who CAN save OUR university.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
More job cuts are not necessary.
@dundee.ac.uk senior management are ideologically obsessed with them.
For reasons unknown they are determined to destroy the institution and, by extension, the city of Dundee.
If you missed it, here’s the interim Principal talking about substantial future job cuts at University of Dundee.

He refers to the number of job losses recommended in the recovery plan. This is 390FTE with 340FTE via redundancies.

We believe redundancies are not necessary. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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We realise that opinions can change. If you repeated a statement which no longer reflects your position, you should explain why.

Stating you never made the statement in the first place is harmful as it erodes everyone’s trust.
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
How can we have trust in this leadership?
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Shocking behaviour from a supposed 'leader' of Higher Education. #LowPrincipals

@ucu.org.uk @parliament.scot
Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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@maggiechapman.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social

We can also quote him word for word from a meeting with all staff on 1st July.

“I do want to emphasises the fact that it’s a pure voluntary severance scheme.

It will not be followed by a redundancy scheme.

There is no secret Plan B.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Redundancies were ruled out on three occasions by the most senior staff member at the University of Dundee.

Once to STV, once to staff and once in an interview with the Courier.

Now they are denying they said it when in front of our elected representatives.
Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Oh look! Our Interim Principal is modelling lying for a living. At the risk of cutting his employees’ living.
Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.

He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.

Judge for yourself.
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Our members have been voting all week. Get your ballots in as soon as you can.

#SaveHE #WeAreTheUniversity
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sadly true. It's like the Gillies report never even happened.
When the Gillies report was published, the expectation was that governance at the University of Dundee would improve.

In all truthfulness it’s got worse. Much worse.
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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@dundeeuniunite.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social #DundeeUniUnison
Ballot paper posted this morning, the day after it arrived. Fill in your ballot paper & post ot in. Your vote is your voice, every vote counts.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs #FairPayInHE
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Mine arrived this morning. Posted at lunchtime.
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM