uniteuoc.org.ukUnions Launch Campaign to Save the Vet School Through Unite, Unison, and University and College Union (UCU), staff at the University of Cambridge launch a campaign to save the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge. The Save the Vet School Campaign has emerged as a result of recent communications from the central […]
Unite, UCU, and UNISON are extremely concerned at the School of Biological Sciences’ recommendation to end veterinary education and clinical provision at the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital. This rushed proposal puts many jobs at risk, threatens the region’s only low-cost veterinary care and the UK’s highest-ranked veterinary education, and contradicts the University’s recent public assurances […]
A Fight for Jobs, Students, and a National Asset Introduction: A World-Class Institution Under Threat The proposal by Cambridge University management to effectively close its Department of Veterinary Medicine—ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement as the best undergraduate veterinary course in the world—represents a critical threat not only to its staff and students but […]
From our Branch Secretary, Dear Save the Vet School Campaign Members,Last week, the Regent House held a discussion on the future of the Veterinary course, which can now be read in the Cambridge Reporter. Thank you to all Regent House members who were able to submit comments.For the next stage of the campaign, we would […]
University Reporter “Topic of Concern” Last week, the Regent House held a discussion on the future of the Veterinary course, which can now be read in the Cambridge Reporter. Thank you to all Regent House members who were able to submit comments. https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2024-25/weekly/6778/section5.shtml#heading2-17
Vet School Update: It’s not over by a long chalk. Staff, Students, and the public turned out in force on the 4th of March, to protest at the very idea that The University Of Cambridge would even consider shutting down its prestigious Vet School, in the wake of a critical report by the Royal College […]
A month before Xmas 2024, various news organisations started to report on an RCVS accreditation visit to Cambridge University’s Vet School. Most pieces cherry-picked the, , in a fashion calculated to engage with their readers. The BBC concentrated on accusations of racism, the Telegraph on animal and student welfare, and the Guardian was worried about […]