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19 March 2025
UCU today responded to the Department for Education's decision to slash adult skills budgets by 6%.
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17 March 2025
UCU Scotland today warned the principal of the University of Edinburgh that strikes and other forms of industrial action are a real possibility if senior management…
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17 March 2025
University of Bradford staff have overwhelmingly backed strike action in a consultative ballot over plans to axe at least 300 jobs in a programme of cuts that will…
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14 March 2025
University of Bedfordshire plans to sack scores of staff will make life worse for students, UCU and UNISON warn. University leaders told workers earlier this week…
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11 March 2025
UCU comment on the news announced at an all staff meeting today that Dundee University will be cutting 632 jobs, and that they expect to do so including by using…
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10 March 2025
On Saturday 15 March Coventry University staff and students will hold an alternative open day in protest against the fire and rehire cost cutting exercise vice-chancellor…
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4 March 2025
UK higher education faces an unprecedented crisis, UCU declared today, with new data compiled by the union showing over 5,000 jobs at risk. The announcement comes…
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27 February 2025
Staff at Brunel University will begin 16 days of industrial action tomorrow in defence of jobs, UCU has announced. The first day of strike action will take place…
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26 February 2025
UCU members at Birmingham City University (BCU) have announced an official dispute over the university's plans to make staff redundant as part of a wide-ranging…
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26 February 2025
UCU today joined Liberty and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in condemning an attempt by the University of Cambridge to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine…
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