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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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16 February 2026
Staff at Arbour Square and Tower Hamlets campuses of New City College in east London have overwhelmingly backed strike action in a dispute over the unfair dismissal…
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11 February 2026
Staff at Truro and Penwith College will strike on Monday 23 February in an escalating dispute over low pay and poor working conditions
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9 February 2026
Staff at the University of Essex will begin seven days of strike action on Thursday 12 February in a fight over plans to axe 400 jobs and the resulting threat to…
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9 February 2026
Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions, UCU announced today Staff will down…
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9 February 2026
Staff at Durham University have backed strike action in a fight to protect working conditions and job security, announced UCU today 63% of UCU members who participated in…
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30 January 2026
UCU has today called for proper funding for prison education and an end to cuts, as the government responds to the Justice Select Committee report into prisoner…
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28 January 2026
7 days of strikes will hit the University of Essex in February over plans to cut 400 jobs, UCU has announced today. Staff at the university will down tools from Thursday…
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27 January 2026
UCU has today condemned plans by London Metropolitan University (London Met) to slash the jobs of 120 academic staff. Although London Met made a loss last year,…
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22 January 2026
UCU today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action Staff at the university took 16 days…
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