Liv Facey, 21, feels like she’s been robbed. After two years of Covid disruption, ‘prison-like’ living conditions and Zoom lecture misery, she and fellow students were relieved to finally return to in-person teaching last term — only for staff to start cancelling lectures to go on strike over pay, pensions and working conditions.
Little did Facey and her peers know it then, but that was to be just the beginning of yet another academic year of campus chaos: starting with a mass strike on ‘walkout Wednesday’ last week, staff are set to walkout for an “unprecedented” further 17 days across February and March alone.
