Birmingham UCU has managed to secure substantial national and local media coverage after raising serious concerns about the University of Birmingham’s Dubai campus and management’s refusal to work with the recognised campus trade unions in a meaningful way to address these concerns, even after the jailing by UAE authorities of British PhD student Matthew Hedges. Here’s a round-up of the major coverage.

Television news

• ITV News at Ten – University of Birmingham staff to boycott Dubai campus (22//11/2018)

• Channel 4 News – University of Birmingham staff to boycott Dubai campus (22//11/2018)

Print and online news

• The Guardian – Birmingham University warned of risk to LGBT rights at Dubai campus (14/11/2018)
• The Guardian – Birmingham University staff to boycott UAE campus after jailing of academic (22/11/2018)
• The Tab – Academic boycott of UoB Dubai campus agreed in unanimous vote (22/11/2018)
• BBC Midlands Live – University union votes to turn down Dubai teaching work (22/11/2018)
• BBC News – Matthew Hedges: University staff’s Dubai campus boycott (23/11/2018)
• Redbrick – Pressure Builds on UoB over Dubai Campus Safeguards (26/11/2018)
• Private Eye – Desert Pong (No. 1484, 30 November – 13 December 2018)
• The Tab – Birmingham MP raises ‘serious concerns’ as UoB announce extra courses on Dubai campus (30/11/2018)

Radio

• BBC WM 95.4 – James Brackley, President of Birmingham UCU, on The Paul Franks Show (22/11/2018)

• BBC WM 95.4 – James Brackley, President of Birmingham UCU, on The Paul Franks Show (26/11/2018)