The Memo documents the rise and fall of LSE academics' power to halt redundancy. The last row of the table is quite sobering. LSE academics would be reasonable to demand that power be restored before any further changes to the Annex (11/12)

Now LSE wants to change the Annex again. Most of their exact proposals are being kept secret up to now. But, given their above pattern of secret attacks on tenure, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT ANY PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE ANNEX BE MADE PUBLIC (10/12)

This table summarizes of how and when these locks on 'tenure' were dismantled at the LSE, for everyone from Research Staff to full Professors. The @ucu.org.uk is now one of the few remaining safeguards that plays a substantial role in employment protection at the School (9/12)

The third attack reported on 'tenure' at the LSE was that the Annex checks and balances were systematically ignored for years, despite being found in the employment contracts of impacted staff (8/12)

The second attack on 'tenure' was the secret removal in 2022 of statutory seats providing a Staff+Student Veto on Council, the LSE governing body. Council must approve all redundancies, so this removed a crucial tenure protection through an egregious procedural error (6/12)

The first attack on 'tenure' at LSE was the sneaky removal of government oversight over changes to our Articles of Association. This was said to be caused by the Higher Education Reform Act 2017. That's false—it seems the LSE actively removed it and nobody noticed (5/12)

The Annex only protects 'tenure' if it's hard to change. Three things used to assure that: Oversight, Veto power, and Contracts. All were recently undermined, with more changes planned. By undermining 'tenure', the LSE has massively undermined academic freedom here (4/12)

Tenure was abolished in the UK by Thatcher in 1988, but a watered-down version remains protected at the LSE and roughly a dozen other UK universities by a document called the Model Statute, or "Academic Annex" at the LSE. It prevents redundancy without good cause (3/12)

The 'Tenure Memo' describes how protections were removed by misleading the LSE Academic Board and the union, and in some cases failing to consult them. Now, ongoing revisions are apparently again being carried out in secret (2/12)

The worst attack on 'tenure' at the London School of Economics in years was just revealed by the
@ucu.org.uk LSE branch. It is ongoing and impacts all LSE academics, from Research Staff to Full Professors. Please share widely, as we're in trouble here (1/12)