Newsletters

Current newsletters

Please refer to our News pages where the newsletters are posted as they are sent out to members or see our Associate Lecturer (AL) newsletters page. 

The Spark 

The Spark was our branch newsletter and amongst its aims were to promote discussion of issues relating to our employment with the Open University and in Higher Education in general, and to keep the various categories of OU staff that we represent, in touch with each other. The newsletter is called "the Spark" after the London-based newspaper "Iskra", or in English, the Spark, which was founded in 1900 and Leon Trotsky was one of its writers.  Due to workload pressures we have not produced an issue of the Spark since June 2017 but we send regular email bulletins to our members.

The Spark protocol/editorial policy

June 2017 issue of the Spark - sent to all members on 29 June 2017

November 2016 issue of the Spark - sent to all members on 8 November 2016

May 2016 issue of the Spark - sent to all members on 19 May 2016, there are two documents related to the May 2016 issue on the Associate Lecturers page.

November 2015 issue of the Spark - sent to all members on 24 November 2015

June 2015 issue of the Spark - sent to all members on 19 June 2015

February 2015 issue of the Spark - sent to all members on 20 February 2015

November 2014 issue of the Spark

July 2014 issue of the Spark

March 2014 special issue of the Spark (East Grinstead regional centre)

February 2014 issue of the Spark

Archive page with older issues of the Spark, branch newsletter.