Month: March 2021

The following motion was passed at the branch meeting on Wednesday March 10th

This meeting notes:

●  That the University of Nottingham People and HR Committee has approved a new Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) model of engaging Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) in paid independent teaching work (e.g. preparing and delivering lectures/seminars, providing contact hours with students, marking assessments).

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This Motion to Congress was passed at the branch meeting on Wednesday March 10th

Congress notes: 

1. That the military in Myanmar have seized power and are conducting mass arrests of activists across the country. 
2. That part of the Civil Disobedience Movement is organised from university campuses, involving student-led protests and strikes by academics. 
3. That the military is brutally suppressing this resistance, arresting at gunpoint a union leader at Yangon University, Professor Arkar Moe Thu, on 2 March 2021.

Congress resolves:

1. To extend our solidarity to the Civil Disobedience Movement, and to demand the release of Professor Arkar Moe Thu and others held by the regime. 
2. To negotiate for students applying from Myanmar to be allowed to use alternative criteria to the IELTS exam due to internal restrictions in the country. 
3. To demand that universities audit their investments and partners to sever connections with organisations and individuals that are linked to the Burmese military.