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Birmingham UCU

The University of Birmingham can apparently find £879,828 for a Westminster lobbying firm, but claims there is no money to end casualisation, reverse cuts, or fund decent pay for staff. 1/4

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Birmingham UCU

As Private Eye Magazine reports - Over six years, management paid Lodestone to run public affairs campaigns and curate “engagement” with ministers in order to boost REF “impact”, yet refuses to explain what exactly was bought because it would “prejudice commercial interests”. 2/4

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Birmingham UCU

This blurred line between research “impact”, paid political access, and secretive spending should alarm everyone who cares about public universities, academic integrity, and democratic accountability in higher education. 3/4

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Birmingham UCU

We will be asking why this money was not spent on secure contracts, student support, and protecting jobs – and how staff and students can have any confidence in governance when such decisions are taken behind closed doors. 4/4