Provide hardship funds to precariously employed staff at Goldsmiths whose employment has been cut or changed as a result of Covid-19 or restructures and who may be further impacted by strike deductions during GUCU industrial action

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With industrial action threatening graduations, parents of affected students urge parties to reach agreement

Come and party with Goldsmiths UCU members and supporters on July 22nd at Pelican House, in Bethnal Green from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. There will be food, drink,…

‘Impossible to plan’ for research and teaching, say staff, as threat of redundancy looms large over summer breaks

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By neglecting to adequately fund university teaching, the UK government is undermining its own growth ambitions for the creative sector, say Goldsmiths’ interim vice-chancellor David Oswell and, separ...

The crisis at the London university shows how marketisation has pushed UK higher education to the brink.

Plus: a council backtrack, a very Goldsmiths civil war and inside the new Piccadilly trains

Union tells staff to walk out after academics taking part in boycott told they will lose full pay

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This emergency motion was passed with overwhelming support at the emergency branch meeting on 21/05/2026. This branch notes that: GUCU branch committee members and the employer have met three times .....

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Union opposes new savings target and questions plans for online courses

One of the UK's best-known higher educations institutions for the study of creative, cultural and social subjects is to enact another round of redundancies,

'Future Goldsmiths' marks the third restructure programme at the south London-based university in five years