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  • 13 March 2020

    Five-day walkouts at UK universities It was a full week of disruption, pickets and demonstrations at dozens of UK universities this week as UCU strike action entered…

  • 6 March 2020

    UCU sets out path for real change for higher education and an end to the strikes UCU said yesterday that it believed agreements that could put the union and the…

  • 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…

  • 17 February 2020

    UCU members at 74 universities will begin 14 days of strikes on 20 February in the largest wave of strikes ever seen on UK 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…

  • 31 January 2020

    Ballot results mean 74 universities could now be hit with industrial action The number of UK universities that could be hit with strike action this term now stands…

  • 29 January 2020

    Staff have reacted angrily to a restructure plan at Goldsmiths (University of London) to cut the number of frontline staff and increase the size of the senior management…

  • 27 January 2020

    Staff at the University of Liverpool's central London campus are threatening strike action in a row over redundancy pay-offs. Staff at the campus, which will close…

  • 24 January 2020

    External examiners resigning in protest at universities' failings over disputes The Guardian reported yesterday that senior academics are refusing to act as external…

  • 13 December 2019

    Second report from Joint Expert Panel on USS released UCU has welcomed the second report from the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) looking at the Universities Superannuation…