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17 December 2024
Coventry University has threatened more than 300 staff with the sack. Those who remain will be forced to work through a subsidiary company on behalf of the university,…
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28 June 2024
Around three in four voters (74%) think the next government should step in with emergency funding for universities in financial crisis, according to new polling.…
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5 April 2024
Staff at the University of Kent have backed strike action in defence of jobs. The result comes as the person in charge of the cuts, vice-chancellor Karen Cox, announces…
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5 April 2024
A strike ballot will open on Monday 15 April at Sheffield Hallam University, announced UCU today UCU has accused the university of pushing ahead with expensive…
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5 April 2024
UCU has attacked the government for cutting funding to creative arts courses.
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28 March 2024
UCU today announced staff at Goldsmiths University have overwhelmingly voted to take industrial action in a fight to stop the sacking of more than one in 6 academic…
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23 June 2021
The government must immediately halt devastating plans to half grants for university arts subjects in England, said seven trade unions.
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13 February 2021
In her first speech to UCU's annual congress as general secretary, Jo Grady set out the challenges workers in prison, adult, further and higher education are facing…
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26 January 2021
UCU members overwhelmingly backed a vote of no confidence in the University of Leicester's vice chancellor and executive board on Monday (25 January), in response…
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10 November 2020
UCU has warned the University of East London (UEL) of potential industrial action over the university's decision to push ahead with compulsory job cuts.
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