London Met greylisting

On 1st September London Metropolitan University (LMU) became the first institution to be greylisted in UCU’s history. Over the past few weeks we’ve been inundated with messages of support and been copied in on hundreds of emails to vice-chancellor, Alfred Morris. 

What you can do:

Write to the vice-chancellor at London Metropolitan University, Alfred Morris (Alfred.Morris@londonmet.ac.uk) to:

·         express your concern

• state that that you will not take part in any collaboration with LMU for the duration of greylisting
• call on the university to honour UCU’s redundancy avoidance procedure
• request that the findings of the independent enquiry currently being conducted by Deloitte Touche are made public and are acted upon
• call for an urgent internal review of LM management following the reports of both HEFCE and Deloitte Touche

Greylisting includes:

·         Non-attendance, speaking at or organising academic or other conferences at LMU

·         Not applying for any advertised jobs at LMU

·         Not giving lectures at LMU

·         Not accepting positions as visiting professors or researchers at LMU

·         Not writing for any academic journal which is edited at or produced by LMU

·         Not taking up new contracts as external examiners for taught courses 

For more details on the LMU situation go here and here

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