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Statute 18. Update: UCL’s new Provost Michael Arthur has formally withdrawn the senior management proposals to alter Statute 18, and has also expressed his willingness to discuss the alternative proposals created by staff and students to strengthen and extend academic freedom protections.

Statute 18

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the campaign! Read more. What is Statute 18 and why should I care? Statute 18 is a 17-page section of UCL’s Charter and Statutes, the governing documents of the University. UCL are proposing wholesale changes to Statute 18 that will fundamentally alter the character of the university, and ultimately threaten jobs, courses and entire departments with cuts and closure. Shutting entire departments, closing courses and embarking on programmes of mass redundancies is impractical for UCL Management as long as Statute 18 is in place, so why are UCL management so keen to reform it over the summer break?

More about Statute 18 Who are ‘academic staff’? To preserve academic freedom. Rally at Academic Board: Statute 18. SaveStatute18. Attacks on academic freedom and job security. UCL students OCCUPY in opposition to management plans to destroy Stratford community, make hundreds homeless. For press contact, call 07928560671 UCL students have occupied against management plans to demolish the Carpenters Estate in the construction of a new Stratford campus. 318 households are already being evicted to make way for a new UCL campus.

UCL students OCCUPY in opposition to management plans to destroy Stratford community, make hundreds homeless

Earlier on Wednesday, students demonstrated outside a meeting of the university’s highest governing body, UCL Council, which was set to approve for the proposition. UCL Council had its longest meeting in living memory, as one of the most controversial issues in the College’s history was discussed, with academics and students criticising the plans and calling for them to be dropped. Despite this, UCL management effectively brushed aside dissenting voices.

An occupier said: “If UCL management refuses to listen to the overwhelming will of students and staff – and go ahead with a project that will destroy a community – we have a moral duty to fight on the issue and prevent them from going ahead.” More information is available here: Housing policy, Newham style: let residents make way for an UCL campus. A local authority that has major problems with its housing waiting list decided last week to demolish a structurally sound council estate and send its residents elsewhere.

Housing policy, Newham style: let residents make way for an UCL campus

The mooted replacement, to which they then gave their enthusiastic backing, was a new campus for an elite university, University College London. It's so obviously immoral that you could easily assume this was a malevolent, Shirley Porter-style episode from the height of Thatcherism. It is, instead, the policy of a local authority that has 60 Labour councillors out of 60 and a high-profile Labour mayor – a one-party state. The London borough of Newham – the borough in question – recently made the news when it transpired they had asked a housing association in Stoke-on-Trent to rehouse hundreds of those on its massive waiting list. Or was it a desperate response by a cash-strapped local authority that hoped nobody would notice? The other is the Olympic Village – most of the Olympic venues were in Newham. Letters: UCL's vanity project. UCL Bloomsbury Masterplan.

I am delighted to introduce the UCL Bloomsbury Masterplan.

UCL Bloomsbury Masterplan

The Bloomsbury Masterplan was approved by UCL Council in July 2011 to provide the strategic framework for the development and improvement of the UCL Bloomsbury Estate over the next ten to fifteen years to ensure UCL’s fine buildings in the very heart of this great world city best support the University’s highest academic standards and global ambition. The Masterplan was prepared over the 2010-2011 session with a thorough review and analysis of the estate, wide consultation with UCL staff and student communities and considerable iteration of options. The objectives of the brief were broad and ambitious including: improving the coherence and integrity of the estate; ensuring effective and efficient space utilisation, effectiveness and functionality; respecting our heritage while driving improved environmental performance; enhancing the student and staff experience.

Malcolm Grant President and Provost. On the Learning High Street. Aaronjohnpeters : The future of UCL. Alma mater... UCL Save Carpenters — BASTARD OF THE WEEK: *ANDREW GRAINGER, PROPERTY TSAR*