The institution has completely refuted the suggestion made by branch members and the university rector.

The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...

DUCU is raising funds for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve compulsory redundancies.

Stuart Fairweather sets the latest developments at the University of Dundee in wider context.The end of August saw the publication of a Scottish Government / Universities Scotland report authored by Professor Anton Muscatelli. The Future Framework for Universities is a serious attempt to outline the pressures on - and possibilities for - Scotland’s higher education institutions.The report, the first ‘pillar’ of ongoing work, focusses on diagnosing the financial issues impacting universities. Fur

The PSA, BISA and UACES have written to leaders at the University of Dundee in support of Politics and International Relations colleagues facing redundancy to ask them to value the excellence in teach...

Employees at the troubled institution are protesting plans to cut £20 million, putting 190 jobs at risk.

The strategy is crucial to the university unlocking another £20 million in rescue funds.

Both Dundee Students Union Association and Dundee University and College Union wrote to the Scottish Funding Council.

Dundee and the myth of recovery through redundancy This morning, the staff of the University of Dundee were told that more of them must go. A further 190 posts, to meet a further £20 million in annual...

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

The University and College Union (UCU) staged the latest ballot as part of a long-running dispute over cuts and job losses.

At many British universities, issues from low student recruitment to staff demoralisation are met with the same answer - restructure, centralise and de-personalise.

Yesterday, the Dundee branch of the Universities and Colleges Union (DUCU) staged a protest outside Bonar hall coinciding with a University Court workshop. The Court is the highest governing body o…

Staff taped their mouths shut in a show of defiance as they warned an alternative blueprint for the struggling institution’s future is being ignored.

Staff taped their mouths shut in a show of defiance as they warned an alternative blueprint for the struggling institution’s future is being ignored.

I've been proud to stand with staff and students at the University of Dundee - throughout the financial/governance crisis. So I was glad to attend DUCU's townhall meeting last week.

The move by the University and College Union (UCU) is part of a long-running dispute over cuts.

Staff members of the Dundee Branch of the Universities and Colleges Union (DUCU) have staged two consecutive days of strike action outside Tower Building. Staff are striking after the University Ex…

University and College Union (UCU) Scotland say Dundee is the "canary in the coal mine" of a jobs crisis.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will go on strike for two days next week, on March 17 and 18.

Members of the Dundee UCU group lost trust in the interim principal and director of finance, agreeing to strike on 17 and 18 of March.

Members of the Dundee UCU group lost trust in the interim principal and director of finance, agreeing to strike on 17 and 18 of March.

Closure of low-enrolment courses, higher staff-student ratios and departmental mergers among measures being considered by institutions

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The troubled university has received £62m of public money in recent years

University of Dundee architecture students have successfully campaigned to address a shortage of teaching staff which threatened accreditation of courses