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Defend Education Birmingham | The campaign for free and democratic education in Birmingham and the UK. Fb: Defend Education Birmingham. @DefendEdBrum. A letter to our VC – Call off the attacks on low paid staff or we’ll call a national demo. Dear Professor Eastwood, Birmingham Defend Education are extremely disappointed by the University’s decision to attack the pay and conditions of 114 low paid workers. We believe that everyone who works at the university should be paid fairly, above the minimum wage, and should be on a dignified contract with specific fixed hours, or autonomy over the hours they work. The low paid front line staff that are affected are essential to making the university function While they are having their conditions or their numbers cut, the amount and pay of the managers at the top continues to rise. The management of this university is too large and too aggressive: we have far too many senior managers removed from the impacts of their decisions getting paid inordinate amounts of money for closing departments, networking with dodgy international businessmen, and lobbying for fees and privatisation.

Petition: Stop Redundancies at University of Birmingham Petition. Target: University of Birmingham Petition Background (Preamble): The University of Birmingham have announced plans to make 114 staff redundant or force them to work anti social hours contracts. Staff directly supporting students and there wellbeing are affected. Cuts include: *Cut in staff looking after students in student accommodation and downgrading their skills; *Sports Centre, Security and Cleaning.

The anti social hours contracts are forcing staff with caring responsibilities for children and parents to work evenings and weekends. All the cuts are to frontline staff, not senior managers. Petition: We call on the University of Birmingham not to make any members of staff redundant or forced to work anti-social hours, and to protect the number of frontline staff.

The Stop Redundancies at University of Birmingham petition to University of Birmingham was written by Matthew Raine and is in the category Education at GoPetition. Signatures: Stop Redundancies at University of Birmingham - Petition signatures - Page: 1. Uni of Birming ham: Distin guished Leader - Tony Hayward. Current position - CEO Company - Genel Energy Tony Hayward studied geology at Aston University in Birmingham and completed a PhD at Edinburgh University. He was Group Chief Executive of BP from 2007 to 2010 having joined BP in 1982 as a rig geologist in the North Sea. Following a series of technical and commercial roles in Europe, Asia and South America, he returned to London in 1997 as a member of the Upstream Executive Committee. In June 2011 Tony founded Vallares plc, a $2.2 bn acquisition company listed on the London Stock Exchange, He became Chief Executive of Genel Energy plc in November 2011 following the merger of Vallares plc and Genel Energy International, the largest oil producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

He is the Senior Independent Director of Glencore International AG, a Partner of AEA Investors and a Member of the Advisory Board of Numis. Registration for this event is now closed. This event will be filmed and photos will be taken. Tony Hayward talk protested at University of Birmingham. Tony Hayward. Anthony Bryan "Tony" Hayward (born 21 May 1957) is a British businessman, the former chief executive of oil and energy company BP. He replaced John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, on 1 May 2007. His tenure ended on 1 October 2010 following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[1] He was replaced by Bob Dudley.

Education and early career[edit] Tony Hayward was born in Slough, Berkshire, in 1957; the eldest of seven children. Later on, his family moved to nearby Windsor.[2] After attending the local state grammar school, he went on to gain a first class geology degree from Aston University[3] followed by a PhD from the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences.[4] Joining BP in 1982, with his first job as a rig geologist in Aberdeen,[5] he quickly rose through the ranks in a series of technical and commercial roles in BP Exploration in London, Aberdeen, France, China and Glasgow. Replacement of Lord Browne[edit] Negotiations with Russia's Igor Sechin[edit] Deepwater Horizon oil spill[edit] Honorary Graduates of the University of Edinburgh | Honorary Graduates and Degrees | Academic Registry. Honorary Graduates of the University of Edinburgh | Honorary Graduates and Degrees | Academic Registry.

Uni of Birming ham: Distin guished Leader - Tony Hayward. Zoom.it: Uni of Birming ham: Distin guished Leader - Tony Hayward.

Occupation Senate Chambers

Reoccupation 22jan2014. University-of-birmingham-reoccupied--even-though-five-students-face-possible-expulsion-for-previous-protest-9083897. Between 30 and 40 people are believed to have occupied the Horton Grange Conference Centre at around 10pm. A student inside the occupation told the Independent they plan to stay indefinitely. “We’re not going to leave and stop until they actually start talking about our demands,” she said. Among their demands, the protesters are calling for vice-chancellor David Eastwood to lobby the government for fees to be reduced and bursaries increased. They also want university accommodation made cheaper and staff to be paid a living wage. The student said she disagreed with the university, which has said the occupiers do not represent the student body.

“There are a lot of students who agree with our methods, but they don’t feel that they can get involved with it,” she said. The Independent understands more students intend to join the occupation. One student who was involved in the November occupation plans to travel to Birmingham today to join.

National demo 29jan2014

Slaney_Street : BREAKING. Council publish this... Vice-Chancellor's profile. Professor David Eastwood became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham in April 2009. Previously, he was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a post he had held since September 2006. Former posts also included Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, and Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Professor Eastwood held a chair in Modern History at the University of Wales, Swansea, where he was also a Head of Department, Dean, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. While at Swansea he co-founded the National Centre for Public Policy. He was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Pembroke College (1988–1995) and is now an Honorary Fellow of both St Peter’s College, Oxford, from where he graduated in 1980; Keble College, Oxford, where he was a Research Fellow from 1983 to 1987; and also the University of Swansea. He is also a Board Member of Marketing Birmingham.

Professor Eastwood is married with three children. Council Business Plan and Budget 2014+ Council Business Plan and Budget 2014+ Headlines The council has responded to direct concerns from residents, highlighted in the most extensive consultation to date, by revising its savings proposals in the following areas: Foreword by the Leader of the Council, Sir Albert Bore Sir Albert Bore In last year’s Business Plan I set out the enormous financial challenge the City Council was facing in the years ahead.

Sadly, the prospects have become even worse in the course of the year and the Government seems determined to press ahead with its planned programme of cuts to council funding right up to 2018. I also demonstrated last year how the grant cuts have been unfairly distributed across the country, with the areas of greatest need and deprivation receiving the biggest cuts. But the indicative figures for the next year (2015-16) are even more unfair. We rely on central government for most of our income – only about a tenth comes from Council Tax – so these cuts have a huge impact.

Students get dragged out of Eastwood´s "distinguished lecture" David Eastwood. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Eastwood has held the posts of Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University. His academic specialism is modern history, and he was fellow and senior tutor of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a post he had held since September 2006. [4] Former posts also include Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board.

He is also Chair of the QAA Steering Group for Benchmarking and a member of the QAA Board. Honours[edit] Eastwood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)[5] in 1991.[2] On 25 January 2012, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands.[6] Controversy[edit] Eastwood has been criticised over large rises in his own pay in comparison to pay cuts received by less senior staff and lectures. References[edit] Vice-Chancellor's Welcome - University of Birmingham. Michael_chessum : Gradually getting emails through... Michael_chessum : In my activist memory I've... @EddBauer sur Twitter. @SeanFarmelo) sur Twitter.

The University of Birmingham having NOTHING TO SAY on the occupation. University-of-birmingham-occupation-broken-up-by-police-8970120. 15 students had been occupying the senate chambers at the University of Birmingham since last Wednesday, in a protest against a perceived lack of democracy and student representation, and expensive tuition fees. According the group organising the protest, Defend Education Birmingham, police, bailiffs and security entered the chambers at around 7am.

After initially resisting removal with linked arms, the students left the occupation peacefully later this morning. Around 30 students turned out to support the occupiers at short notice. Hattie Craig, one of the leaders of the movement, told The Independent that “it was incredibly disappointing and frustrating to see my own university pay thousands of pounds to obtain court orders in order to remove what was a peaceful protest by concerned students, instead of simply engaging with them”.

In a statement, the university said that the occupiers were “not representative of the wider student body”, University of Birmingham suspends two students for nine months after peaceful protest - News - Student. Simon Furse and Kelly Rogers were among students who occupied rooms at the university as part of the Defend Education Birmingham campaign, calling for more democracy and student representation at their university, greater pay for staff, and for their senior management to “take back their position that fees should be increased”, among other demands.

Furse and Rogers, both 22, have been suspended from their courses for nine months, and will not be allowed to return to their studies until March 2015. A third student, Hattie Craig, 21, was also handed a formal reprimand and a de facto “suspended sentence”. She also faces immediate suspension should she breach any university regulation. The students were informed of the university’s decision earlier today, although a three-day hearing is said to have taken place in June, the culmination of a seven-month disciplinary period.