Casual NEC vacancies UK-elected member (HE) UCU Commons is delighted that our member Madeleine Moore (Loughborough University) is standing for the current casual vacancy (UK-elected membe...

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

20 July 2026 Dear Prime Minister On behalf of the Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU), I request a meeting with you to discuss Higher Education. The sector needs a review of managem...

We're happy to announce a new UCU Commons Project: JNCHES vs. Inflation. We've extracted pay spine point data going back to 2005 and plotted it in a number of ways against several inflation measures.

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

Profiles and responsibilities of colleagues on the University Executive Board.

During moments of political crisis it’s often said there are weeks when decades happen. This has been one such week.

Update (11/05/26): As anticipated back in March, unfortunately managem… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

Let’s get the inevitable earworm out of the way before we go on – though perhaps something about the unsettled atmosphere of a Eurovision where even more viewers, past participants and broadcasters…