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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Scenes from the Picket Line: Day 3 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, following hundreds of job losses and thousands more to come. Here are our wonderful workers, staying strong: (1) Craft-making on the picket line ...

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our strike action began today. The management at our university has seemingly shackled itself to course closures and compulsory redundancies, despite neither being financially necessary. So we fight for our members, our students, and our community until they change their minds.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 8 of 25. We moved our picket line to this afternoon and we were blessed with amazing sunshine. Our members resolve is strong as we fight against the underhanded methods employed by the UEG including not following their own processes. Thanks to the many students who support us and visited us.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

QMUL made it into the news...again. Instead of investing in a sustainable future that centres the experiences of students and the working conditions of its staff, management, according to The Tab, spent £4,820,000 on restructuring, (1/2)

QMUL spent
£4,820,000
in 2024/25 on restructuring
instead of investing in a sustainable future of the institution and ranks 19th amongst Britain’s universities.

picture of the newspaper article stating "The UK universities which spent the most money on 'restructuring' and cutting staff's jobs"

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Workers at the University of Hull are facing another round of voluntary redundancies while management threatens further measures over a decrease in international students. Check out our #UKHEShrinking page to get an idea of the grave developments in the sector: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking - QMUCU

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with Brighton, where the university management is threatening the derecognition of UCU! We will stand together! ✊

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us at our rally tomorrow as we say "NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES" at the University of Dundee. 154 colleagues' jobs are under threat. Come along to show our governing body, Court, how we feel about putting peoples' jobs and lives at risk. 12:30pm. Bonar Hall, Nethergate, Dundee.

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covucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear University Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award? For CU’s VC? The university with the huge deficit, collapsing student numbers, hundreds of redundancies and 2,788 staff transferred to subsidiaries over 3 years? That Coventry? Right. Interesting award criteria you have there. Best, The staff

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Solidarity with colleagues working the @ucu-ulster.bsky.social open day, whilst facing 450 redundancies. Anyone in the area, please stop by at 10am!

Photo of a UCU picket at the university of Ulster

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It seems like mass redundancies get you an award nowadays. What a joke!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 25/08/2026

🚨 University of Nottingham staff will strike over plans that put jobs, courses, teaching and research at risk. UCU members will walk out on 30 September and 1 October, followed by sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December. Staff have put forward alternatives. Management must listen.

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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

SundayTimes reports that the University of Birmingham spent £12.4m on redundancy payments in 2024–25. This was the fourth-highest among the eight Russell Group universities listed as spending more than £10m, and sixth-highest across all 117 institutions analysed.

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Universities spend £400m on ‘golden goodbyes’ in a single year

The 60% increase shows how even top institutions are scrambling to deal with falling numbers of overseas students and stagnating domestic tuition fees

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They call it voluntary to gloss over how their schemes are ruining the university, making the job "untenable". This is not just because academic staff are made redundant. @thetimes.com reports that a lot of these schemes are taken up by professional service staff. #UKHE

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 23/08/2026

📰 Today’s Sunday Times exposes just a fraction of the attacks on jobs in Universities. We know the true picture across the UK is even worse. With record student sign ups this situation is completely untenable. The government must intervene.

This table describes the level of job losses in several universities across the UK.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We encourage every member of our branch to attend the vigil for Jason Arday taking place today at 6 pm in Trafalgar Square. Let's stand together in grief and solidarity and express our anger collectively.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Shameful behaviour! Sending solidarity to Exeter and @exeterucu.bsky.social ! ✊ We also added this to our #shrinkingHE list: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Shameful behaviour! Sending solidarity to Exeter and @exeterucu.bsky.social ! ✊ We also added this to our #shrinkingHE list: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The EHRC's new Code of Practice is now in effect. Here's what you need to know! transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri... #TransRights #Trans #TransResources

Image of hands waving Trans flags.

Text reads: Know Your Rights! The EHRC's new code of practice is now in effect. Here's what you need to know.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TransActual is launching the Trans Lives Survey 2026. It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community! Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans

A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom.

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/08/2026

How could things in UK higher ed possibly get worse? Hello for-profit universities run by a firm owned by the Bettencourt family and Canada's biggest pension fund. www.ft.com/content/f094...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

✊No more cuts! No more spending on war!✊ At a time of constant cuts and mergers, Queen Mary University of London joined the Defence University Alliance (DUA) in an opaque move.

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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Redundancies don’t just affect those selected. Where posts are cut but work remains, other staff absorb extra duties, increasing workload and impacting wellbeing, teaching quality and student support

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

✊QM UCU supports branches currently on strike!✊ All over the country, the sector is facing mass redundancies, mergers, and deteriorating working conditions. But they don't take on an isolated group of workers! We stand together and support each other across branches! (1/2)

What you can do next: Check the UCU dispute list, Send a solidarity message and donations, visit a picket near you, bring a solidarity motion to your next branch meeting

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📌 SAVE THE DATE: GUCU strike fundraiser! 📌 Wednesday 22 July, 6 till 10pm, Pelican House E1. Music! Speakers! A raffle! Friends! Everything you could possibly need to get through (another) long hot summer of fighting the good fight. Full line-up coming soon 😉 Divided we beg, united we fight!

A pale blue poster with a grainy photo of a pink t-shirt reading STRIKE, 269 staff at risk. Text reads: Wednesday 22 July 2026, 6 till 10, Pelican House, E1 5QJ. Music! Speakers! Prizes! Friends! Divided we beg, united we fight! Goldsmiths UCU strike fundraiser.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Don't forget! Our fundraiser concert is happening next saturday at Liquid Light with Renegades of Rage (featuring some of our own members!) and Thieves of the Stone Age. Tickets are moving, so make sure you grab one in advance: www.tickettailor.com/events/reneg...

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Buy tickets – Renegades of Rage UK + Thieves of the Stone Age (UoN UCU strike fundraiser) – Liquid Light Taproom

Renegades of Rage UK + Thieves of the Stone Age (UoN UCU strike fundraiser) – Liquid Light Taproom, Sat 18 Jul 2026 - Renegades of Rage UK + Thieves of the Stone Age (UoN UCU strike fundraiser) Who…

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

MPs are running out of time to sign the EDM and must act now! Over 150 MPs have signed an early day motion to reject the EHRC's Code of Practice. If your MP hasn't signed yet, it takes two minutes to email and ask them to take action. equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This downscaling is part of the UK-wide casualisation of TA/TF working conditions, which is making it increasingly difficult for PGRs to navigate academia. This is unacceptable!

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Lincoln University, who are once again facing redundancy! We also updated our #UKHE Shrinking list. Check it out to get a full picture of the systematic destruction of the sector: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.

EXETER UCU VOTES IN FAVOUR OF MOTION CALLING FOR STRIKE BALLOT

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And yet management @northumbriauni.bsky.social press on with plans to cut the pay of hundreds of staff on @teacherspensions.bsky.social. This is vindictive, unnecessary, a permanent stain on the university's reputation, and, with job losses imminent, is destroying morale. For what?

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Solidarity works! Colleagues in History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) at Newcastle have raised £586 for the UCU Nottingham fighting fund in support of members taking strike action against compulsory redundancies. The collection was organised in recognition that what happens at one

image showing a Solidarity Fund pot for Nottingham Uni UCU to show that we are all in this fight together, and that doing twinning between sections and branches makes a material difference!

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Tomorrow, 12pm. Come to our strike rally at Goldsmiths University, New Cross — with Lewisham Mayor @liamshrivastava.bsky.social , @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social , and more. #NoRedundanciesEverAgain

Bright pink and green graphic with bold black text reading “Stop the Goldsmiths Cuts.” A speech bubble announces a strike rally on Tuesday 30 June at 12pm at Goldsmiths University, New Cross, SE14 6NW. Speakers include Lewisham Mayor Liam Shrivastava and MP John McDonnell. A cartoon megaphone with “GUCU” written on it appears in the bottom left. A QR code links to more information and the strike fund donation page.

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@ucu.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social @unisonmedia.bsky.social Job losses imminent @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Joint statement from @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk at the uni: The first duty of any trade union is to protect the jobs and livelihoods of its members. ...

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Esme (she/her) @esmegrace31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A petition has now been created by Exeter UCU against these measures. Sign it here: c.org/LF57sK7YfR This careless obliteration of HASS subjects is needless and so cruel to the fantastic staff at Exeter, and the wider devaluing of humanities & arts subjects within UKHE must be stopped.

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

UCU thinks university rankings are nonsense. But university senior managers love them. They have been boasting about Leicester rising 12 places in the QS rankings. Leicester UCU prepared this infographic to offer a more long-term perspective.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What I *love* about UK Higher Education is that there is a belief in meritocracy which intentionally ignores the class system. Universities have to report on the jobs their students get after finishing their degrees and the salaries they get, as if their degree is divorced from their class ->

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

End of the financial year approaching. And we URGENTLY need protection against this kind of rushed playing with people's lives for the sake of sprucing up the report to the banks... #UKHE

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Your government’s cuts have cut 30,000 jobs in the past three years in universities (by January; who know how many more since), and you have just cut £100 million more from strategic teaching budget for sciences. Enough of the empty words when it suits. DO SOMETHING. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

ah, we see the QS rankings are out. #UKHE Reminder to journalists how much money gets thrown at these things, for an artificial table. If government was serious about plugging some of the leaks of money out of the sector, they might put an end to the rankers.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

And that “only” cost a quarter million in consultancy fees to QS in 2024 (up from £228,000 in 2022) and manipulating staff into badgering their friends to write glowing reviews “to make the department/faculty look compliant for the central uni”. Yay?

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Picket lines at LSBU campus off Borough Road open at 9 with a rally at 12 this hot sunny Monday June 22nd. There may also be some good old protest singing if I have anything to do with it. Come join us! @kclucu.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

👇 And it's notable that a lot of the local Labour and trade unionist movements, which were often comprised of and promoting the interest of predominantly manual workers, were very active in promoting education, culture and reading. So they are betraying their own heritage on multiple levels.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 17/06/2026

"we've been forced to make difficult decisions about canaries, but we're confident that those decisions will benefit the long term financial sustainability of the mine"

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