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11 March 2025
UCU comment on the news announced at an all staff meeting today that Dundee University will be cutting 632 jobs, and that they expect to do so including by using…
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10 March 2025
On Saturday 15 March Coventry University staff and students will hold an alternative open day in protest against the fire and rehire cost cutting exercise vice-chancellor…
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4 March 2025
UK higher education faces an unprecedented crisis, UCU declared today, with new data compiled by the union showing over 5,000 jobs at risk. The announcement comes…
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27 February 2025
Staff at Brunel University will begin 16 days of industrial action tomorrow in defence of jobs, UCU has announced. The first day of strike action will take place…
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26 February 2025
UCU members at Birmingham City University (BCU) have announced an official dispute over the university's plans to make staff redundant as part of a wide-ranging…
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26 February 2025
UCU today joined Liberty and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in condemning an attempt by the University of Cambridge to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine…
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26 February 2025
The principal of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, announced today in an email to all staff that senior management at the university are…
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26 February 2025
UCU Scotland comment on Tuesday 25 February's announcement during the budget debate in the Scottish Parliament that the Scottish Government was making up to £15million…
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25 February 2025
UCU today responded to reports that the government's immigration white paper will contain proposals to force international students to leave the UK unless they…
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24 February 2025
Over 1,000 members of staff at Durham University are set to be balloted for strike action at Durham University, over plans by management to cut £20m from the university's…
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