A Cardiff university student has called for young people paying tuition fees to be reimbursed as lecturing staff prepare to walk out in a row over pensions and pay on Wednesday, February 1. All universities in Wales will be affected by the strike, which coincides with the teachers’ walk out.
Cardiff University first year student Jake Enea called on universities to re-imburse students for lost teaching. The politics student estimates he will lose around £1,000 worth of lectures and teaching across the 18 UCU planned strike days and said neither the union nor the university employers in general had done enough to avert the walk out in a row that has been rumbling on for years.
A lecturer who spoke to WalesOnline, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said UCU members are striking over “dangerously high workloads, job insecurity, unfair and low pay, and the cutting of our pensions”.
