If anyone had any doubt that the intention of the marketisation project was to set up students and staff in opposition to one another as adversaries in a consumer system, then the moves by universities to discipline students for not crossing picket lines is the proof... /1

...universities often talk a good game about ‘community’ (although in reality management is primarily worrying about how ‘learning community’ is interpreted for NSS), but in practice we see what they really think of students who have minds of their own. /2

Think critically; be a leader. But if you think differently from us and agree with the people teaching you then you’ll get fucking punished because in the end power is all that matters /3

This is morally bankrupt, let alone poor management. If universities are communities with ‘members’, then those members have rights as citizens of that community. /4

These authoritarian strikes at students who dare to support those who educate and support them, from librarians to administrators, from lecturers to welfare staff, show just what management really thinks of students. They really are only so many units of £9.25k a year to them /5

So many units to be mobilised for NSS response rates. Well, over the next couple of weeks management is going to learn a lesson, that the real university is on the picket line, because threats and resorting to power over reason abdicates any claim to the title ‘university’.