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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Well done to @uonucu.bsky.social for getting such a strong turnout, and good luck on your action! 💪
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 01/07/2025
“Considering the drastic plans for job losses and restructuring, we are left with no alternative in order to protect the jobs.” Lopa Leach @uonucu.bsky.social on the YES vote to strike action. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
University of Nottingham staff vote to strike over job cut threat - BBC News
Staff at the University of Nottingham plan to take action over proposals to cut more than 250 jobs.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 22/06/2025
The first step in building the new Cardiff university has been cuts of around 280 academic jobs and at least a dozen programmes, mostly from the arts and humanities, in a four-month manufactured crisis
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Lecturers from Cardiff University predict its dystopian future
Anonymous What will a “leaner and more efficient” Cardiff University look like? Cardiff University’s Executive Board has set out their vision for ‘digital transformation’ in Wales in 2035, where ‘digi...
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
nation.cymru/news/cardiff... Disgusting behaviour from Cardiff University. Our valued colleagues must not be denied emeritus status simply for being committed trade unionists, and all institutions that do this should be named and shamed
nation.cymru
Cardiff University academic who objected to cuts robbed of title through 'spite'
Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The List in meme-format: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
meme: a man with a mustache and glasses is speaking to a woman with platinum blond hair. 
"University managers keep pushing through restructures claiming it will make things cheaper"
"well, did it work for those people?" asks the woman.
"No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but... but it might work for us"
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The University of Dundee has a women problem “In our view this culture of sexism runs deeper than the sidelining of women speaking up and out and persists beyond the ignominious end of Iain Gillespie’s tenure as Principal of the university.” www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/c...
thecourier.co.uk
'We're female professors, here's why we think Dundee University has a women problem'
Professors Angela Daly and Annalu Waller say Dundee University is destroying its commitment to gender equality in STEM.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
REDUNDANCIES PROCESS CONTINUES This is a follow up to our post on Tuesday regarding the interim-Principal stating "There won't be any redundancies" in an STV interview Prof Seaton has clarified his remarks by stating that he meant "There will be no redundancies related to the recovery plan". 1/3
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Newcastle University strike action over as dispute settled
Strike action from academics at Newcastle University is over now an agreement has been reached between a trade union and management
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Congratulations to Newcastle; may their victory Inspire all who face similar fights ✊✊✊
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Newcastle University staff strike ends in settlement
University and College Union members end strike action prompted by the threat of job losses.
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
oh hey, government, this is why you SORT OUT THE FUNDING SYSTEM for universities alongside getting governance sorted. Because otherwise you're going to have to keep throwing good money after bad. Because we all know you cannot afford a university *actually* going under, however ballsy you sound.
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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The results of the De Montfort university UCU branch's formal No Confidence ballot have now been confirmed: a resounding 90% voted no confidence in the VC and the ULB This is the fourth significant No Confidence vote passed during the current round of proposed redundancies
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Another £40m for University of Dundee from Scottish govt. Underlines how bad things are there - but can’t help feeling other Scottish unis would have liked a share of the £62m now handed to Dundee when they were cutting jobs, etc www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dundee-...
timeshighereducation.com
Dundee given £40 million bailout following ‘unprecedented’ crisis
Money for ailing institution from Scottish Funding Council comes on top of the £22 million previously made available
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
WHOA!!!!! Dundee, you legends!
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Pagan Furrier @paganfurrier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Other VCs, it can be done!
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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hard to argue with the headline, though debatable use of the word market, and the analysis is a bit superficial. www.ft.com/content/7514...
ft.com
The English higher education market is broken
New regulator powers should include the ability to claw back pay from vice-chancellors in the event of financial catastrophe
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We sure do!
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5... "Let’s not pretend these are isolated blunders. This is a pattern – a public sector culture where too many in charge act like they’re above the rules. Paid with your money. Protected by the press office. Answerable to no one."
thecourier.co.uk
DAVID CLEGG: The rot in Dundee’s leadership runs deeper than the university
The Courier's editor David Clegg criticises the "culture of secrecy" gripping Dundee institutions beyond the crisis-hit university.
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
nation.cymru/opinion/lect...
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Lecturers from Cardiff University predict its dystopian future
Anonymous What will a “leaner and more efficient” Cardiff University look like? Cardiff University’s Executive Board has set out their vision for ‘digital transformation’ in Wales in 2035, where ‘digi...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Absolutely infuriating that this is the end point of vastly inflated salaries for Vice Chancellors and other top admin whose obsence pay raises at a time of pension cuts were always justified on the grounds that only they could manage the new era of competitive marketized higher education.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
'The university has informed staff of plans to cut 400 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions by July 2026, with academics the first to go.' Professor Andy Schofield, VC at Lancaster University since 2020, will take up position of Principal & VC at Glasgow University on 1 October 2025.
timeshighereducation.com
Lancaster University to cut one in five academic jobs
Institution says it is ‘not immune’ to financial challenges as it looks to axe 400 jobs
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reminder to all members: join us for our Emergency General Meeting today (Monday , 23rd) at 11.30 to discuss the newly launched voluntary severance scheme and other matters.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We are extremely concerned by the letter from Ernst and Young, auditors at the University of Dundee. The letter suggests that executives submitted inaccurate responses during the auditing process. 1/2 www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
parliament.scot
Letter from Ernst and Young LLP to the Court of the University of Dundee
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
extremely insightful report from Liverpool Hope about the financial state of the university and the long-term risks posed by the course closures and redundancies. drive.google.com/file/d/1qcu1... #UKHE #SaveHe
Redundancies Are Not the Solution
The VS scheme. Course closures. Promotion deferral. Deletion of course combinations.
Redundancies. These have been some of the University's highlights for the past 1.5 years.
Taken together, these actions represent a sustained and escalating attack on the livelihoods
of dedicated staff at LHU and the integrity of the country's HE sector as a whole. None of these
‘solutions’ have made or will ever make LHU financially sustainable in the long-term. These are
short-sighted and unjust initiatives that have eroded and will continue to erode the trust and
morale of the very people who have committed their lives and careers to the mission of LHU:
to inspire and support students from all walks of life and, crucially, to educate students in the
round - i.e., to show them that learning is a quest for truth, honesty, and goodness.
Redundancies may save some money in the short-term but universities around the country
are consistently and repeatedly underestimating
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
STV news coverage of today’s rally. #stopthecuts #ucuedinburgh #ucu #universityofedinburgh youtube.com/watch?v=08vO...
youtube.com
Edinburgh University lectures strike over compulsory redundancies
YouTube video by STV News
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 20/06/2025
I’m striking today in opposition to planned £140m cuts at the University of Edinburgh. Less than three years ago, I left the University of Roehampton after all the academics in my School were sent letters telling us we were being put at risk of redundancy.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/06/2025
UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊
UCU members on Edinburgh picket lineNo More Cuts written in chalkUCU members on Edinburgh picket line
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Tomorrow @sutrscotland.bsky.social national demonstration (Sat 21/6) in Glasgow: Aye Welcome Refugees - Stop the Far Right. Assemble 12noon, Barrowland Park for march. Then music and carnival from 2.30pm at the Old Fruitmarket #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Herald coverage: Edinburgh university staff strike today as 1800 job losses threatened www.heraldscotland.com/news/2525177...
heraldscotland.com
Edinburgh academics strike over £140m funding cuts
The strikes are intended to disrupt the university’s annual Open Day, where thousands of prospective students and their families will visit campus.
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
STABLE FUNDING. The experiment of having the country's higher education and research reliant on the volatility of student fees, AND removing any predictability by removing the student number distribution clearly doesn't work.
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
More shocking than what was already known. Misogyny, neglect of duty, the devastating effects on staff and students could have been avoided with better management. Dundee Uni needs fresh management.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/06/2025
Mary Senior from @ucuscotland.bsky.social said the report laid bare “abject failings” of management. “Given the clear failings of management, it should not be staff and students that are left to pay the price in cuts to their jobs and cuts to education" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Lancaster University set to cut 400 jobs, including one in five academic posts, in bid to save £30 million www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lancast... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
timeshighereducation.com
Lancaster University to cut one in five academic jobs
Institution says it is ‘not immune’ to financial challenges as it looks to axe 400 jobs
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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"The university needs to look at the election of a leadership that staff can get behind and which is committed to resolving the current situation without the use of compulsory redundancies.” @carloucu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2525296...
heraldscotland.com
University of Dundee staff resign following damning report into financial crisis
Three senior members of the University of Dundee, including its principal, have resigned in the wake of a damning report into its financial crisis
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Newcastle University offers compensation of up to £1,200 to students affected by staff strikes www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
timeshighereducation.com
Newcastle University offers students strike compensation
Bosses rule out compulsory redundancies and apologise to students for disruption
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The previous VC had 'an "overbearing leadership style" and a dislike of potentially awkward confrontations or questioning'. #UKHE 'leadership' has GOT to learn that the only way forward is through conversation not diktat. Stop depicting people asking questions as attackers; they're *helpful*.
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Pagan Furrier @paganfurrier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Indeed. A familiar set of traits in HE “leaders”.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
In light of the catastrophic failings of governance and financial management at the University of Dundee, we continue our fight to save jobs. We’re asking for a commitment to no compulsory redundancies and the removal of the currently active Section 188. #SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Busy picket lines across the university today. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social striking to save jobs and #StopTheCuts
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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We will continue to fight on behalf of our members’ jobs, conditions, and the academic disciplines being decimated with every tool at our disposal including consulting our members about future industrial action.
nation.cymru
Cardiff University announces final cuts package as union expresses grave concern
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has announced that the business case for its controversial “Academic Futures” cuts proposals has been approved by the university’s top decision making body. But the U...
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Standing behind what our co-president has named "The Wall Of Lost Staff". We're striking because we need to know that the wall isn't going to get any longer.
Picketers stood behind a line of pieces of paper, filled with stick figures (representing lost staff), and with doors (representing vacancies that aren't open for replacement).
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🙌🙌🙌
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
UK universities continue to fall in global rankings as their own governments make sure they suffer and struggle. Britain - the stupid country. 🇬🇧 www.ft.com/content/d9ea...
ft.com
Majority of British universities slip down global rankings
Chinese, Indian and south-east Asian institutions climb the annual list
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#OpenDay #UniversityofEdinburgh #stopthecuts #ucu #ucuedinburgh
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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A brilliant take down of the reckless tech-bro optimism of Cardiff University management plans. 'A flagship national university cannot be run like a tech startup.' Indeed, *no* university should be run like that!
iwa.wales
Disruption and market futurology at Cardiff University - Institute of Welsh Affairs
Cardiff University academics explain how the pace of cuts, commercialisation and techno-speculation at the institution risk its collapse.
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Well done on this excellent turnout, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social !
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
NEW on Wonkhe: The fallout from the Dundee investigation will have consequences across the sector bit.ly/4noTQZk
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This is what happens when SMT's refuse to be transparent with or accountable to the community they serve www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Dundee University bosses quit after damning report into financial collapse
A report into Dundee University says its financial crisis was caused by a "self-inflicted" failure of its oversight system.
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stirlingucu.bsky.social @stirlingucu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
While we may regret meeting the membership conditions, we couldn't be in better company for the work ahead. Lots more likely commonalities to come, we suspect 🙃
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leedsucu.bsky.social @leedsucu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Solidarity with colleagues at KCL! kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
Consultative ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding at KCL
VOTE to show management that you’ll take a stand for academic freedom and the safety of colleagues at KCL! What is this dispute about? What are the demands? In March, KCL UCU formally notified manage...
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