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Suzi Toole

@suzitoole.bsky.social
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UCU rep, FE teacher, mad scientist Proud Chair of the FEC, Women's committee & NW Regional committee Vice Chair of the Equality committee UCU VP (FE) Elect All opinions are my own

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 7h
Hundreds gathered outside the Scottish Parliament today. UCU general secretary Jo Grady brought solidarity to striking staff at Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian. We stand with you. ✊
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Solidarity Nottingham ✊🏻 We must resist the continued destruction of our Higher ed provision. Defend jobs, defend student choice, defend the HE sector.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Liverpool this morning where the Labour party conference is in full swing to film some Comms about the upcoming New Deal for FE aggregate ballot. Stay tuned for updates!
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two great equalities and casualisation webinars today. Thank you to Ben Pope and Kevin Dawes for inviting me to speak on the barriers to union participation for casualised workers.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Excellent result from Bournemouth and Poole College on their new workload agreement! Reduction of contact hours to 828 from 964, capped weekly teaching hours, protected planning and marking time and full xmas closure without using annual leave 🙌 Well done to the negotiators
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Finally managed to break into my account again 😅 I can't be expected to remember my own passwords in a digital age. Resetting it was a faff. Reset code sent to my email, except it wasn't 🤦‍♀️
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'll be at this tomorrow. Join us!
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
C'mon Clacton. You have one chance to redeem yourselves in the eyes of the nation and do something hilarious
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How Farage has the brass neck to trigger a by-election for the constituency he has barely bloody set foot in since he was elected is beyond me.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oooh suddenly the DfE have found several million quid down the back of the couch! It's welcome news for schools (except that the first 1% is coming out of their budgets) and for FE colleges however we can't keep surviving on little injections of cash here and there. We need national bargaining.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Please sign this petition - now over 9k sigs - to stop the philistinic slashing of Humanities and Social Sciences staff at Exeter. #UCU #UKHE All solidarity with my brilliant friends and colleagues at @exeterucu.bsky.social
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Sarah Pochin's tone deaf message for the England Men's World Cup squad 🤦‍♀️ Reform UK - protecting women and girls by begging a sportsball team to keep winning instead of holding perpetrators accountable.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Pride celebration day at Bolton College 🙌 Great to see staff and students getting involved. Just watched a performance by the BSL students signing This Is Me ❤️
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Yes Hannah 🙌
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Email your MP. I don't currently have one, hence the local circus in Makerfield but sharing this for those who do. This "guidance" on single sex spaces is ghoulish and unworkable.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's petty, but watching Sarah Wakefield making Rob Kenyon squirm on Question Time asking him to apologize to Carol Vorderman made my week. I could practically hear the eye rolls of the women in the audience when he said "I'm not sexist, I've got a mum and a sister" 🤮
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Shame on Nottingham uni
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Real FE teachers discussing their lived experiences. Much of the job is not actually teaching, it's the admin, the tracking, the prep, the marking, the pastoral care, the endless meetings and online training modules. No wonder they're burnt out. Workloads are not working. #UCU #FE #Workloads
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New section of the UCU website dedicated to the Workload's not working campaign. Keep up to date with the campaign as it progresses and is rolled out more widely. This week, members in the first cohort of training are taking place in a week of action at their branches www.ucu.org.uk/article/1453...
ucu.org.uk
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Stop the world. I want to get off please. We are going backwards as a society.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Section 28 all over again by stealth 🤮 People said this would happen and naysayers replied dismissively "you're overreacting". This is the tip of the iceberg. Women's rights will be next.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Totally agree with the academic boycott of University of Sheffield. Despite healthy finances they are proceeding with restructures and punitive double deductions to striking members who have refused to reschedule teaching (disruption is the point of a strike 🙄). Shameful behaviour from management!
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
As part of the FE Workloads are Not Working week of action we weld a lunch event in the boardroom.. encouraged staff to get away from the desks, take their full unpaid break. Played a game of Workload bingo. Lovely to have the Principal on board to support as well. #UCU #FE #WorkloadsNotWorking
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Successfully Chaired the Further Education sector conference at UCU congress for the first time 🙌 Got through the motions early so we're off for a tipple to celebrate before the delegates dinner and disco 💃🕺 #UCU #FE
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Useful info for anyone going to UCU Congress
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This. Also: if you’re cis? Prefer not to say.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
You had me at free pizza 😄🍕
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/05/2026
Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...
Please see link for full statement. Please see link for main statement. Please see full statement.
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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
As cuts destroy our university... We fight back ✊🏼💜🩷💜🩷 #WeAreTheUniversity @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Ella on the megaphone, Jo Grady in support, mass crowd with our banners at University of Nothingham
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Found out today that malignant hemorrhoid Tommy Ten Names was using Bolton College's culture day to stir up hate on twitter 🤮 I think he's jealous he can't dance as well as our students.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is so desperately sad and unnecessary. Short sighted knee jerk responses from Sheffield management 😔
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
As a Lord of the Rings Fan I maintain I DA HOBIT is the best acronym for an international day
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Please sign this open letter to avoid cuts at University of Nottingham physics and astronomy dept nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...
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Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
So my local MP has just announced he's standing aside so Andy Burnham can mount a leadership challenge. All I can currently think about is how hard it's going to be to hang onto this clean DBS if that reptilian creep Farage comes campaigning in my area 😬
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Absolutely vile
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Solidarity to CCG on strike over workload this week! May you have sunny pickets and managers with listening ears 🙌
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social. Why? Management is pushing ahead with restructures despite sitting on £200m+ in reserves. Along with colleagues in East Asian Studies, I also find out in 12 days how many of us they want to fire. No justification is deemed necessary by management.
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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Join our rally with @uonucu.bsky.social and our local Unison and Unite colleagues 10:30am-12 to make some noise outside the South side of Trent Building where UoN Council is meeting. Future Nottingham does not have to happen. There are other ways. Come and support us. Bring your voices #JoinAUnion
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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close
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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Imagine your boss emailing you to demand you immediately move to a worse pension scheme and contract or you’re out of the door. That’s what happened to our members at Southampton Solent. They are fighting back. Sign this petition to support them. www.change.org/p/students-s...
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Sign the Petition
Students Stand With Staff at Solent University: Stop the Pension Cuts Petition.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Solidarity to Windsor Forest College in their continuing industrial action. A 1.7% pay rise is a pay cut!
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President Greater Manchester Association TUC @presidentgmatuc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We will be taking a message of #solidarity to the @unison #strike
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
More terrible restrictive decisions from Gilead- I mean USA 🤮 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
nbcnews.com
Supreme Court asked to pause ruling blocking telehealth and mail access to abortion pills
The emergency appeal comes a day after a federal appeals court granted Louisiana's request to require that mifepristone be dispensed in person.
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Outrageous when they're turning a profit and have plans to expand another campus! bsky.app/profile/eica...
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 09/04/2026
Just as the banks were banned from taking excessive risks after the 2008 global financial crisis, my new @hepi-news.bsky.social report calls for equivalent measures in Higher Education to prevent a similar crisis from developing. Read / download the report here: www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/a-de...
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A degree of regulation: Building a more financially sustainable and resilient higher education sector - HEPI
Excessive risk-taking by higher education providers must be curtailed. With concerns mounting over the financial health of the English higher education sector, a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) – written by Tom Richmond, a former adviser to ministers at the Department for Education – argues many universities have taken too many […]
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Great to meet with @alisonbarnes.bsky.social and @nteunion.bsky.social colleagues to take some lessons from their governance campaigns back to @ucu.org.uk Plenty of opportunities for future cross-border collaboration too! Looking forward to hitting the ground running as #ucu VP next month.
NTEU president Alison Barnes and UCU vice president for higher education (elect) Mark Pendleton stand on a footpath outside the NTEU headquarters in Melbourne.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
For those thinking through the question of ‘funder of last resort’ for HE, and the Secretary of State’s reluctance to get involved in HE financing and other structural issues, this is worth a read: www.shma.co.uk/our-thoughts...
shma.co.uk
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Had a smashing time being the quizmaster at Suffolk New College. Brilliant fun organized by the UCU branch and supported by SMT. Favourite quiz round- Cheese, Peas or Bees? Delicious curry provided by the student catering team and staff too. Thanks for having me, well worth the 252 mile bike trip!
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Great to catch up with reps as part of the FE Six Steps to Safer Workloads campaign tonight. Hearing how they are organising workload surveys & inspections leading up to the forthcoming week of action was incredibly inspiring. Special shout-out to over achievers Abingdon and Witney smashing work 💪
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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Sending full solidarity to everyone taking strike action at Windsor Forest College. The pay offer from management is an insult, especially after the principal and SMT award themselves a large pay rise! Diabolical behaviour!
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