We want Bournemouth University to reimburse all students for teaching and learning time lost due to the planned strikes. Additionally, we want the University to listen to lecturer and student demands and work with the UCU to find an amicable solution to the threats our lecturers currently face: concerns about pay, casualisation, working conditions, the gender pay gap, racial inequality, workloads and pensions.

As students, we support our lecturers and University staff who choose to take industrial action to protect their- and our- futures and interests. However, we feel that we should be compensated by Bournemouth University for the fact that we are missing extremely valuable time from our education as a result of the University's attitudes towards its staff.

Based on £9,000 a year tuition fees, with the strike lasting the full eight days, students are set to lose £380 each (£300 paid for every five day week), and an equally appropriate sum of compensation for Postgraduate Students. With 17,753 students at Bournemouth University, this equates to the university paying out roughly £6,746,140 in compensation. This does not include the 2,610 international students who pay twice the tuition losing out on double the money.

Additionally there shouldn’t be an application process, all students should receive the full amount of compensation automatically, without having to fill out forms.

Reference: Edwina Laycock (University of Sussex)