
General secretary's news
Updates from Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary
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10 August 2020
This is a big week for higher education, as exam results are published in Wales, Northern Ireland and England (following Scotland last week) and universities scramble…
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3 August 2020
As we announced during our live event on Wednesday, members have voted to reject the employers' offer in our Four Fights dispute, by 61% to 39%, on a turnout of…
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28 July 2020
Further to my previous updates regarding the levy of members, I am writing with some more information about the steps which we are now in a position to take to…
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27 July 2020
Since the start of the pandemic employers have used the uncertainty about universities' income as a pretext for making opportunistic and unnecessary cuts to the…
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24 July 2020
To the thousands of members who have already voted in the consultative ballot on the employers' offer in our Four Fights dispute - thank you. If you have not voted,…
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14 July 2020
Part of our Fund the Future campaign to protect jobs in post-16 education is an extensive programme of interactive online events for UCU members, branches and the…
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9 July 2020
A report this week from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies made a 'central estimate' that higher education (HE) would face losses totalling £11bn because…
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3 July 2020
I'm writing with some positive news that I hope will go part of the way towards addressing members' understandable concerns that the levy authorised in February…
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