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  • 21 February 2020

    Solid support for strikes as students call on university heads to do more to solve disputes Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses…

  • 7 February 2020

    Fourteen strike days at 74 UK universities in February and March UCU members at 74 UK universities will walk out for 14 days in February and March . The action…

  • 6 December 2019

    UNIVERSITY STRIKES Solid action by defiant UCU members and supporters in university strikes Solid strike action continued at 60 universities this week as the employers…

  • 19 November 2019

    The next government should invest in the further and higher education workforce, end the hostile environment for migrants and scrap arbitrary metrics like the Teaching…

  • 22 March 2019

    Strikes at five colleges this week with progress in some disputes UCU members at West Thames College, South Bank College, Croydon College, Bradford College and…

  • 1 March 2019

    UCU general secretary Sally Hunt resigns for health reasons UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has resigned for health reasons. The union's national executive committee…

  • 10 March 2017

    UCU attacks vice-chancellors after Lords amend higher education bill UCU this week thanked peers for making a series of amendments to the government's Higher Education…

  • 7 March 2014

    Ahead of International Women's Day tomorrow (Saturday) UCU Scotland has reiterated its support for the White Ribbon Scotland campaign against male violence towards…

  • 10 November 2006

    Colleges and universities are failing to prevent unfair disadvantage to their ethnic minority staff, and should work more closely with unions to resolve this, according…

  • 1 June 2006

    The new University and College Union has today been created by the amalgamation of the Association of University Teachers and NATFHE - The University & College…