@pauseorpayuk

Student-led UK cross-university action group that emerged as a response to disruption of studio-based learning by Covid-19 💙🕊☁️

 United Kingdom
linktr.ee/pauseorpayuk
Joined April 2020
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2020 ART GRADUATES FROM YORKSHIRE! 🎓 @In_Session__ & @pauseorpayuk are looking for interviewees for their project ‘Shifting Sands: England Graduate Preparedness for a Post-Covid Contemporary Art World’ (1/6)
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pauseorpayuk 🟥 retweeted
East Street Arts@EastStreetArts22 May 2023
‘Paying rent and eating comes before doing any professional practice’ from In Session x Pause or Pay #esahive – at Leeds, England
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pauseorpayuk 🟥 retweeted
East Street Arts@EastStreetArts22 May 2023
Ed Compson of @pauseorpayuk introducing Shifting Sands #ESAHive
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Replying to @UCU_UAL @ShovelDance @PicketLinePoets @defendthearts @PCSL_SE @JasiBP @Equity4GND @pauseorpayuk @cloudwaterbrew @OrbitBeers
Thanks for having us! If you're an artist and would like to support our campaign to end outsourcing of cleaners at UAL, please sign our letter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Artists, journalists, and art workers call on UAL to treat cleaners fairly

As artists, performers, journalists, alumni, arts workers, and allies we write to express our grave concern around the conditions cleaners face at University of the Arts London. For nearly two...

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UAL UCU@UCU_UAL22 Feb 2023
Thanks SO much to everyone who came, spoke, sang, performed at last night's event @ShovelDance @markthomasinfo @PicketLinePoets @JellyCleaver @defendthearts @GMBSLU @PCSL_SE @JasiBP @Equity4GND @pauseorpayuk ✊ & to @cloudwaterbrew and @OrbitBeers who generously donated drinks!
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Replying to @pauseorpayuk
A “record breaking” payout 🤪
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Some students were entitled to a Covid refund after all

Plenty of students called for fee refunds during the pandemic – but very few succeeded. Jim Dickinson describes how one group of student creatives bucked the trend to secure a record-breaking payout

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Royal College of Art
@RCA17 Jan 2023
The Royal College of Art today announced that its Vice-Chancellor, Dr Paul Thompson, will be stepping down in the summer of 2024, after 15 years in the role. Read more: bit.ly/3wdMFcM
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Good riddance! In 2016 you tried to destroy the union by firing the only @RcaUcu rep. But you know what? You only made them stronger... since then the committee has gone from strength to strength and now they've seen you off...
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From yesterday's @ObserverUK. @UnisNotBorders was cited in this piece about, Sulav Khadka, a migrant student from Nepal who was detained by UK border cops, claiming that he was a bogus student, sent to a detention centre in Scotland, & held for 10 days: theguardian.com/uk-news/2022… 🧵
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Why focus *only* on Nigerians? Would Nick be outraged if 50,000 white Canadians brought their dependents to the UK? Right-wing pundit, Nick Timothy, is using the 'bogus student' line to promote disastrous Tory policies that will harm working class migrant students. Brief 🧵
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Sick of being lied to? Of incompetent VCs destroying your uni? Of conditions & pay being driven down? Of watching the gender, race & disability pay gaps be ignored? Of your overdraft? See you on the picket line! Let's shut the academy down. We are the university! #ucuRISING
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Your #UCU branch and/or student group can still print off URBC materials. Link: linktr.ee/urbc We have provided #UCUstrike materials for migrant students & staff for 4 year running. Read why our materials are beneficial for UCU members: beyond-education.co.uk/refle…
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⏲️12 hours until the pickets! @UnisNotBorders placards are ready 🔥 Join URBC members on the @UM_UCU, @manmetucu, @NewcastleUniUCU, @kingstonucu, @sussexucu pickets. Share 📷 of your branch w/ URBC posters & lit, hashtag, #BordersKillKnowledge #ucuRISING #UCUstrike 🧵
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Following from our 🧵to @ucu on what migrant solidarity should be within UCU/unions [xitter.cf/UnisNotBorders/status/…] this is a great example of what union migrant solidarity should look like via @pcs_union. Read here: theguardian.com/uk-news/2022… CC: @DrJoGrady
UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge@UnisNotBorders7 Nov 2022
.@UnisNotBorders learned that a migrant EU lecturer refused to write a letter to the Home Office for an asylum seeker on a Sanctuary Scholarship. The EU lecturer’s rationale: “I’m a precarious migrant applying for settled status & I don’t want problems w/ the Home Office.”
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📢URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED ➡️Are you a University of Warwick staff or student? Sign this open letter to the Home Office to support Riham's mother to come to the UK: tinyurl.com/5yrk6fb5 ‼️ DEADLINE: Before 9PM, Thursday 10 November 2022. Share w/ Warwick staff & students!
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Yesterday, a man threw petrol-bombs at a migrant detention centre in Dover before taking his own life. Photo of the incident via @Reuters, full story here: news.sky.com/story/petrol-bo… Years of vicious xeno-racist by politicians & the media contributed to this horrific incident. 🧵
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.@ucu we support #ucuRISING, but this tweet is off as £9K is the home/British rate. Where are the migrant students in your tweet? They are also saddled w/ HUGE DEBT (more than £9K) & #HostileEnvironment that is explained here: wonkhe.com/blogs-sus/the-exp… #OneOfUsAllOfUs?🙄

The exploitation of migrant students needs to stop

At the start of the second lockdown, Timur (not their real name), a migrant student at a Russell Group university, contacted Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) – a national campaign made of migrant...

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UCU
@ucu25 Oct 2022
Students pay £9k a year and get into decades worth of debt When they see staff eek out an existence on insecure contracts, they know both of them are being mugged Together we will save higher education #ucuRISING
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.@UnisNotBorders is against Home Secretary, Suella Braverman's proposal to limited migrant students & their dependents, but for *different reasons* than that of VCs, who treat migrant students as cash cows for the ££ they bring by charging us higher tuition fees. 🧵
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🚨Significant legal decision from Scotland! Iraqi-born Ola James successfully argued & won a landmark legal case for long-term Scottish residents with indefinite leave-to-remain in accessing free education in Scotland. Short 🧵🧵🧵
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UK universities reliance on PGT students from China & India *predate* Brexit @paddywjack & @timeshighered. Brexit has only allowed UK universities to further exploit students from these countries as cash cows. The issue isn't reliance but exploitation via marketisation.
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.@SuellaBraverman comments about limiting migrant students & asylum seekers is wrong & is using us as scapegoats for the failures of the Tories, but @JoJohnsonUK is not our saviour either. As MP, he voted for the #HostileEnvironment policy: theyworkforyou.com/peer/2489… Small🧵
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