University and College Union, UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in further and higher education.
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Ulster University spent £800,000 on a project that was then abandoned.
They are now proposing up to 450 staff redundancies.
We have to expose the hypocrisy and incompetence of many of those leading the higher education sector in 2026.
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Stronger branches. More members. More power.
Our new Building Membership toolkit has practical tips on recruiting colleagues, starting conversations and growing your UCU branch.
It starts with one conversation.
Download it: educationitsours.org.uk
Our members at Dundee University have exposed cuts to disability and welfare student services. They are striking against vicious job cuts.
They are fighting to protect an institution at the heart of the community in Dundee. Show them your solidarity.
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This article completely exposes the cruel and shortsighted cuts that are being made to creative courses at Edinburgh University and elsewhere.
It is now a question of what sort of society do we want?
UCU are fighting for every working class student to have the right to create and inspire.
Make a stand - like like the brilliant Edinburgh UCU Branch.
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£8 million in planned savings. Jobs at risk. Vital research under threat.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine management must come clean on its cuts plans, rule out job losses and work with unions.
Staff, students and world-leading research deserve better.
ucu.org.uk/article/14680/Uni…
Ulster University is planning to cut up to 450 full-time equivalent posts around 15% of its workforce.
UCU’s Norman Hagan explains what’s at stake for staff, students and the future of higher education.
These cuts will have devastating consequences for those who remain and the students they teach.
We stand in solidarity with staff at Ulster University. Together, we must fight these cuts.
BREAKING: University of Sunderland staff have declared a formal industrial dispute over plans for sweeping cuts.
Management wants to slash £40m from its budget, putting jobs and students’ education at risk.
Staff are ready to fight back. Industrial action could follow unless management changes course.
Defend jobs. Defend education.
ucu.org.uk/article/14679/Uni…
The crisis in post-16 education is being raised in Parliament.
The UCU Parliamentary Group has tabled a motion demanding urgent action on job cuts, pay and funding, and backing striking UCU members.
Get your MP on board! We’ll soon launch a tool to help you urge them to sign✍️.
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Universities are tearing apart the humanities, arts and social sciences. Courses are closing, jobs are disappearing, and students and staff are paying the price.
At Exeter, 85% of proposed job cuts targeted these disciplines.
These are choices, not inevitabilities. We need university leaders who will defend education, not dismantle it.
Defend our humanities. Defend our universities.
educationitsours.org.uk
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Fantastic to announce @DrJoGrady @ucu is joining the London-leg of our international anti-war speaker tour
Jo has led the charge in the trade unions against increased military spending, for #WagesNotWeapons
🗓️ Friday 23 Oct
📍 SOAS
⏰ 6.30pm
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Same university. Same work. Worse terms and conditions?
De Montfort University plans to hire new staff through a subsidiary company, denying them access to established pension schemes and creating a two-tier workforce.
This is unacceptable.
University bosses must stop cutting costs at workers’ expense. The government must close this loophole.
ucu.org.uk/article/14678/UCU…
How do we make change happen in education?
Join our UCU Briefs webinar on Friday 20 November, 12:30pm.
Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Goldsmiths UCU members are standing firm.
After three rounds of redundancies, years of financial mismanagement and 100% pay deductions, staff remain on indefinite strike to defend jobs and the future of their university.
Education is a public good, not a business.
Solidarity with @GoldsmithsUCU
#EducationItsOurs
Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali is backing our fight for the future of education.
Across the UK, staff and students are standing up against cuts to jobs, courses and funding.
Find out what’s happening, show solidarity and get involved.
Visit educationitsours.org.uk
Thank you @jeremycorbyn for standing in solidarity with UCU and UNISON members at the University of Brighton.
Trade union recognition is a fundamental right. University management must withdraw its derecognition plans and respect workers’ collective voice.
Solidarity with @BrightonUCU
Many thanks to @jeremycorbyn for supporting the campaign against de-recognition of the campus trade unions @ucu and @UNISONinHE by the @uniofbrighton management - solidarity! @thisisyourparty @ucu_solidarity
Thank you @NadiaWhittomeMP for standing in solidarity with our members at the University of Nottingham.
Cuts to jobs, courses and student support will have devastating consequences for staff, students and the wider community.
University management must listen to staff and engage with UCU’s alternative proposals. Education is ours to defend.
Many constituents have contacted me, devastated by the University of Nottingham’s decision to approve plans to close modern languages and music degrees, cut support services and end one-to-one personal tutoring.
Not only will this decision impact livelihoods and opportunities for students, but it will have wider cultural and economic implications for our city, region and international relations.
Throughout this period, I have stood in solidarity with striking staff and met with university leaders, urging them to protect jobs and courses. It is not too late for the leadership to engage with @UoNUCU and its detailed counter-proposals.
Over 30,000 jobs and 4,000 courses cut in three years. Higher education is in crisis.
UCU general secretary Jo Grady sets out why we’re fighting for a properly funded sector that puts people before profit.
Education. It’s ours.
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