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• Equality
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Campaigns & policy

• Stop the Cuts: Fund Higher Education NOW!
• A New Deal for FE
  • New Deal for FE consultation, May-June 2025
    • UCU branches participating in the New Deal for FE consultation, May-June 2025
  • UCU head of further education update, April 2025
  • The case for binding national negotiations in further education in England
  • Ask your MP to help ensure extra funding for England's colleges is spent on staff
• UCU prison educators: unlocking futures
• Your support is needed
• Members winning at work
• Protect Education Now: national rally on Saturday 10 May
• Climate emergency
  • COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference: a trade union issue
    • COP28 special: climate adaptation and industrial relations
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  • UCU COP27 statement
  • Green new deal
  • Implementing climate learning as a central pillar of education
    • November 2022 climate learning month
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    • Decarbonise & decolonise 2030
  • Greener Jobs Alliance
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• Build the Union
• Stamp out casual contracts
  • PGRs as staff, not students
    • #PGRsOrganising - events series from the PGRs As Staff campaign
    • PGR campaign news
  • Making a difference
  • Casualised contract information for members
  • Casualisation campaign resources
    • Recruiting and negotiating on behalf of staff on casual contracts
    • Representation of fixed-term and hourly paid members on branch committees
    • UCU commentary on the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002
    • UCU commentary on the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000
  • Stamp Out in HE
  • Stamp Out in FE
    • Organising part-time and hourly-paid lecturers - a further education toolkit
    • Precarious contracts in FE - institution snapshot
  • Security Matters
  • How UCU membership works for precariously employed and unemployed staff
  • Anti-casualisation roadshow
• Workload campaign
  • UCU workload survey
  • 2012 UCU stress survey
  • My workload, your education
• UCU policy hub
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• Fighting privatisation in tertiary education
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  • Willetts warnings

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• UCU Scotland
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• UCU Cymru
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  • Part-time hourly paid - it's not fair! • Rhan amser a delir fesul awr - nid yw'n deg!
  • Workload matters
  • FE national bargaining in Wales
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• UCU Northern Ireland
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• UCU in England
  • East Midlands region
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