I'm on strike next Tuesday. Luckily, a student mentioned it in a tutorial. I hadn't had time yet to read the emails from NATFHE, one of which had the info. It would be typical of an academic not to know he was on strike because he hadn't read the email yet. I wouldn't faint if I found out that more than one academic uses the day to catch up on some work.

One depressing aspect of this is how little anyone seems to care when academics go on strike. How many of you know about the long-running dispute and academic boycott of London Met, for example?

There has been some national coverage of the coming strike and assessment boycott on the BBC and national papers, but it seems indicative to me that the first info on media coverage on the website is that 'news of balloting appeared in the Belfast Newsletter, Portsmouth News and elsewhere'

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