On Thursday evening, Uppsala Student Union's council members gathered in the Betty Pettersson Hall at Blåsenhus to participate in the first council meeting of the semester.

Since the publication of the Tidö Agreement, opposition to the reporting obligation included among its points has only grown. For public sector workers in fields ranging from healthcare to libraries, the duty to report is tantamount to a whistleblower law whereby one's profession contributes to the vulnerability of undocumented migrants. In the following post, Uppsala Student Union and our sections comment on the duty to report and its consequences for the students we represent.

Uppsala Student Union and the Doctoral Board at Uppsala University are writing to urge the government to reverse its decision to increase political control over university boards. The government must restore the term of office to three years and make it clear that they intend to return to the system where daily political issues do not control the selection of university board members. Academic freedom requires freedom from political control as well as trust between academia and those in power. The measures now decided by the government threaten both of these values.