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5 March 2026
Staff at Windsor Forest Colleges Group will strike on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 March after rejecting an additional pay offer from management of just £500.
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3 March 2026
Responding to the Spring Statement's failure to address the student loan crisis, UCU general secretary Jo Grady today said:
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2 March 2026
UCU comment on reports that Glasgow Caledonian University is facing a predicted deficit of over £10million in the next financial year and is introducing a targeted…
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2 March 2026
Nine days of strike action begins this week at the University of Essex in an escalating dispute over plans to close Southend Campus, cut 400 jobs and limit course…
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2 March 2026
Over 2,000 people have signed a petition protesting plans to cut language teaching and research at Heriot-Watt University.
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26 February 2026
Staff at Durham University will begin working to rule tomorrow.
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26 February 2026
Members of UCU at the University of Edinburgh will today begin a new ballot in a new dispute over £140 million cuts and up to 1,800 job losses, workload, hidden…
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25 February 2026
Responding to a report that Reform mayor of Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns is pushing ahead with plans to scrap all funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages…
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17 February 2026
Staff at the University of Stirling have today backed industrial action in a dispute about job cuts and the failure of management to rule out compulsory redundancies.…
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16 February 2026
Staff at the University of Aberdeen today voted to back industrial action in a dispute about cuts and the possible use of compulsory redundancies.
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