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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…

  • 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…

  • 29 August 2019

    The Prime Minister must provide urgent assurances about the rights of EU citizens in the event of a no-deal Brexit, UCU has urged today. In a letter to the Prime…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 24 February 2017

    UCU report exposes university heads' pay rises and perks University heads received an average salary package of £277,834 for the academic year 2015/16 - an increase…

  • 8 July 2016

    A look back at some of the week's news EU nationals must not be used as pawns in Brexit negotiations, says UCU UCU this week called on the government and Conservative…

  • 30 November 2006

    UCU has added its backing to an emergency fund for Iraqi academics. The fund, launched by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), will lobby the UK…

  • 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…