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  • 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…

  • 8 November 2019

    Sixty universities to be hit with eight days of strikes this month Sixty UK universities will be hit with eight days of strike action from Monday 25 November to…

  • 4 November 2019

    Strikes scheduled to start on Tuesday 5 November at Nottingham College have been suspended at an eleventh hour meeting of UCU members at the college. Staff  were…

  • 1 November 2019

    UCU members back strikes over both pensions and pay and conditions UCU members working in UK universities have backed strike action in ballots over both pensions…

  • 25 October 2019

    Nottingham College "in crisis" after public rebuke from local politicians It was a bad weekend for Nottingham College after they were labelled "crisis college"…

  • 23 October 2019

    UCU said universities must do more to stamp out racial harassment in a response to a damning report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

  • 14 October 2019

    Black and minority ethnic (BME) staff in universities are less likely to hold senior jobs and are paid less than their white colleagues, according to UCU analysis…

  • 19 September 2019

    Universities must do more to ensure fair access and progression for black and minority ethnic (BME) staff and students, UCU said today. The union was responding…

  • 13 September 2019

    University strike ballots open Strike ballots opened at UK universities on Monday in rows over USS pensions and pay, workloads, casualisation and equality. The…

  • 12 September 2019

    It was a busy and historic few days in Brighton for UCU delegates at the annual TUC congress. The union's motion on climate change was incorporated into a bigger…