University and College Union, UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in further and higher education.
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On Friday 20 November, UCU members at universities across the UK will come together for a national day of action.
With jobs, courses and the future of higher education under threat, we’re coming together to fight back.
Campaign packs will be arriving in early November to help you get ready!
ALT On Friday 20 November, UCU members at universities across the UK will come together for a national day of action. With jobs, courses and the future of higher education under threat, we’re coming together to fight back. Get involved. Join a protest, rally or event at your university. Campaign packs will be arriving in early November to help you get ready. Find out more: educationitsours.org.uk #EducationItsOurs
This Friday, join UCU’s Black Members’ Standing Committee for a Black History Month webinar exploring race and lived experience through poetry and prose.
Featuring contributions from Dave Neita and Claire Hynes.
Friday 23 October | 1–2.30pm | Online
Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Up and down the country, education staff are standing together to defend jobs, courses and the future of education.
Our Education It's Ours campaign is about building collective strength and fighting back against cuts. Find out how to get involved: educationitsours.org.uk
Staff at Lakes College in Cumbria have had enough.
UCU members have declared a formal dispute over excessive workloads, stress and disruptive timetabling changes.
Management must take meaningful action to protect staff and students or face potential industrial action.
ucu.org.uk/article/14686/Lak…
UCU have called a day of action in every University in the UK on Friday 20th November. We will be working with sister unions to ensure the biggest possible support for protests, rallies and events that will be held on this day.
This is part of our fight to protect jobs and courses as well as build solidarity across the union.
Materials will be dispatched to every branch. Start your local planning now.
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.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm87…
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.
thenational.scot/news/266389…
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.
news.stv.tv/east-central/stu…
£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✍️.
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-…
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
UCU retweeted
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
🎟️ Speakers and tickets here shorturl.at/zzhm9
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…