Member of the UCU union back a strike over proposals to cut 200 jobs at the University of Sussex.

This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...

About 130,000 to be contacted for first time in response to ‘alarming’ spike in numbers claiming asylum

TEACHING unions have hit out at “shamefully cruel” far-right attempts to make migrant children feel unwelcome in school.More than 400 trade unionists slammed bigots for protesting outside of schools t...

The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

UCU was responding to The Times' claims that the government will punish universities for accepting international students who seek asylum.

Negotiations on the 2025/26 pay claim ended; UCU and the other campus unions received the final offer from the employers' representatives Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). The el...

Analysis by Ucas also shows that universities and colleges have made more than two million offers in a scramble to fill places

The University of Surrey proposes to employ all new Professional Services staff through its subsidiary company: Operate Surrey: Operate Surrey - Jobs at the University of Surrey. This constitutes outs...

A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. On Sunday 25 May UCU…

The University and College Union (UCU) has declared an academic boycott of Brunel University London in response to the institution's continued pursuit of mass redundancies.

Leaders still among the best paid in the sector, with little sign that increased regulatory scrutiny or financial hardship is having an effect on wages

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