SAFER

25/01/2021

ANNOUNCEMENT: Committee applications now open !

We are looking to handover committee positions by the end of February, so that every student voice can be heard and fresh perspectives can be contributed.

Think you could make a great contribution to the SAFER campaign? Have you got innovative ideas on how to improve and sustain the cause? Apply to be part of the committee through the link in our bio.

Deadline: 12pm on the 10th of February, 2021.

Good luck!

20/01/2021

WHAT TO DO NEXT? - replying to Sam Butler.

The university is making the formal complains procedure even more difficult and complex to try and discourage us from going forward with the process.

Copy the text from our link ‘reply to Sam Butler’ into the reply. Add more course specific content to your complaint if you need to. Reattach the complaint. Click send.

It takes one minute. Your voice can make a difference.

13/01/2021

We have to make them listen. Keep hashtagging on as many social media platforms as you can. If not for ourselves, then for the people who have anonymously listed their experiences here. These testimonials are absolutely devastating. Our university must listen.

05/01/2021

If you haven’t already done so, ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS OPEN LETTER TO THE VP - we must have a no-disadvantage policy put in place!

If you would like to be added to the open letter to Vice President April MacMahon, regarding the ‘no disadvantage policy’, please add your full name, year group and course below and I will copy it onto the letter. Thanks for all your support, Gabriel Clark :) x

04/01/2021

ALL UOM STUDENTS PLEASE SIGN!

Attached below is the link to an open letter to the university. As a result of this national lockdown, this letter calls for the reintroduction of the no disadvantage policy.

This is extremely important. Please sign and send.

We write to you as a collective body regarding the levels of stress, anxiety and concern shared by students at this time. We would like to express our concern at the lack of support to students studying in the current academic year (2020/21). We are asking for the reintroduction of the ‘no disadva...

04/01/2021

The university is now replying to emails sent before and during the Christmas break - now is the time to act!

More information on the autonomous complaint action taking place via the link in our bio ‘complaints procedure guidance’.

If we increase complaints submitted to the OIA by just 1%, the government has said they will review it on a national level.

To send an OIA complaint, you must first go through the procedure of the university. We’ve worked so hard to compile all this info to make it as easy as possible for students to send complaints in this intentionally complex procedure - join us in our fight!

18/12/2020

SEND OR RESEND THOSE EMAILS NOW! THIS TAKES 30 SECONDS.

Many of us have returned home, but the fight continues! We’ve done the work for you - all you have to do is click a button and type in your name.

If the University wants to treat students as consumers then they are in full breach of our consumer rights. Send our tuition fee complaint email directly to Nancy Rothwell and other senior officials NOW. The more we overload their inboxes, the more powerful our voices become. Most University emails are taking a break over Christmas - let’s give them a nice present to welcome them back in the new year. TAKE ACTION AND SHARE THE MESSAGE.

16/12/2020

Progress! Make sure to follow up. Just a 1% increase in student complaints will force the government to reconsider taking action on reducing our tuition fees to reflect the true value of the courses we are receiving.

We deserve better than paying 9k upwards for an online course that could have been done from home. Students have been exploited long enough.

Now is the time to raise your voice.

09/12/2020

Big thank you to Leeds Student Television who conducted an interview with us in early November. Take a look!

07/12/2020

Take a look at this article which includes information about how UoM have responded to our letter of appeal.

Huge thank you to Poppy Bilderbeck for covering this.

https://thetab.com/uk/manchester/2020/12/07/uom-explicitly-rule-out-blanket-no-disadvantage-policy-for-this-term-50338?fbclid=IwAR255W6iMTs9WRtoa-SWpDhsze5g3N2FruKbnKXO7_l7OqUtMhTPKkAuS30

This was announced in response to SAFER's letter of appeal

05/12/2020

A massive thank you to everyone who attended yesterday’s protest, and an especially big thank you to those who volunteered to steward.

Thank you to VIBE MANCHESTER who have cut together a fabulous video of the highlights.

Please keep sharing our QR code, SCAN, SIGN & SEND!

04/12/2020

Scan this QR code!

It will direct you to template email of a formal complaint to the university. All you need to scan, sign and send!

If you could not attend the march today, please make sure you do this and send to all your fellow students!

SCAN, SIGN & SEND.