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UCU members at Edinburgh University take part in industrial action at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140m from the university budget, September 8, 2025

Workers' Rights / 14 May 2026

UCU lecturers launch strike at Heriot-Watt University

14 May 2026

Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024

Climate Crisis / 13 May 2026

Unions demand government acts on public interest and rejects Rosebank

13 May 2026

A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban

Education / 1 May 2026

UCU members ballot for strike at LSBU

1 May 2026

A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh

Education / 27 April 2026

UCU to launch marking boycott at University of Edinburgh

27 April 2026

Workers' Rights / 17 April 2026

Essex Uni staff pass vote of no confidence in axe-wielding vice-vice-chancellor

17 April 2026

UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university budget, September 8, 2025

Workers' Rights / 30 March 2026

Lecturers strike against University of Edinburgh's job cuts

30 March 2026

UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, September 8, 2025

Scotland / 25 March 2026

UCU to strike at Edinburgh University over job cuts

25 March 2026

Students receiving vaccines and antibiotics from medical staff in the sports hall at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury, March 19, 2026

Britain / 19 March 2026

UCU backs home working during meningitis outbreak

19 March 2026

Workers' Rights / 2 March 2026

More than 2,000 sign UCU petition against staff cuts at Heriot-Watt University

2 March 2026

Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jenkyns singing at the Reform UK annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, September 5, 2025

Education / 25 February 2026

Reform cuts to English classes slammed as ‘attack on community cohesion’ by UCU

25 February 2026

Industrial / 11 February 2026

Workers fight redundancy threats on Scottish campuses

11 February 2026

Workers' Rights / 9 February 2026

Durham University staff vote to strike after hundreds of jobs slashed in £20m cuts drive

9 February 2026

Industrial / 8 February 2026

University staff strike over £10,000 fire & rehire pensions loss

8 February 2026

Features / 6 February 2026

Unions are battling an all-out assault on working-class education

6 February 2026

DR GLYN ROBBINS ties fights at universities and sixth-form colleges to the consequences of the market system that began a generation ago with tuition fees

People take part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, as members of the University and College Union (UCU) take part 24-hour stoppage among university staff in an ongoing dispute over pay, pensions and conditions. Picture date: Wednesday November 30, 2022

Workers' Rights / 22 January 2026

‘Scandalous’ University of Sheffield bosses threaten to withhold pay after strikes, union warns

22 January 2026

Scotland / 5 January 2026

Lecturers at four Scottish universities start strike ballots

5 January 2026

Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025

Major concessions to Cardiff University redundancy plans welcomed by UCU

19 December 2025

Education / 5 December 2025

Northumbria University staff to ballot for strikes over pension scheme row

5 December 2025

UCU members at Edinburgh University take part in industrial action at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university budget, September 8, 2025

Workers' Rights / 19 November 2025

Edinburgh University lecturers take strike to Holyrood in battle against £140m cuts

19 November 2025

Workers' Rights / 18 November 2025

University of Sheffield strike enters second day

18 November 2025

UCU pickets gathered in Monday’s bright sunshine outside the University of Edinburgh, November 17, 2025

Education / 17 November 2025

Edinburgh University staff walk out in latest strikes over cuts

17 November 2025

Workers' Rights / 10 November 2025

Dundee University staff begin 5-day strike

10 November 2025

Members and supporters of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland during a rally at Buchanan Street in Glasgow, February 10, 2023

Workers' Rights / 7 November 2025

Cardiff University puts 1,100 more staff in voluntary redundancy scheme

7 November 2025

teachers at Flint High School staged their 10th day of strike action

Workers' Rights / 4 November 2025

Teachers' strike at school in North Wales enters 10th day

4 November 2025

Industrial / 3 November 2025

UCU announces week-long strike at Dundee University

3 November 2025

Members and supporters of the University and College Union (

Industrial / 30 October 2025

Workers at Sheffield's universities announce 28 days of strike actions against job cuts

30 October 2025

Workers' Rights / 21 October 2025

University workers announce strike at Highlands university

21 October 2025

Education / 10 October 2025

More than 15,000 university job cuts announced last year, UCU analysis finds

10 October 2025

Workers' Rights / 15 September 2025

Pay strikes announced at private international college linked with Manchester University

15 September 2025

Workers' Rights / 12 September 2025

Lecturers to strike for 15 days over University of Leicester job cuts plan

12 September 2025

UCU general secretary Jo Grady moving the motion

TUC Congress 2025 / 10 September 2025

Labour should be protecting right to protest, not endangering it, TUC Congress hears

10 September 2025

Money in a piggy bank at a home in Ashford, Kent

Cost-of Living Crisis / 14 August 2025

Students at ‘breaking point’ as half of undergraduates say financial worries hurts their mental health

14 August 2025

Education / 21 July 2025

Unions force university to abandon outsourcing plans

21 July 2025

Climate / 16 July 2025

Inadequate green skills provision puts climate targets at risk, finds new report

16 July 2025

Education / 15 July 2025

Pay strikes at private international college partnered with University of Manchester

15 July 2025

A general view of the University of the West of Scotland's Lanarkshire Campus at Hamilton International Technology Park, June 24, 2019

Workers' Rights / 7 July 2025

Lecturers ballot for strike at University of the West of Scotland

7 July 2025

Ratcliffe on Soar power station near Nottingham

Climate Emergency / 24 June 2025

Two more unions call for British fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty

24 June 2025

Workers' Rights / 10 June 2025

Academics hit back at Cardiff University's revised plans to axe jobs

10 June 2025

Workers' Rights / 28 May 2025

Cardiff University scraps plans to axe courses thanks to UCU campaigning

28 May 2025

Industrial / 21 May 2025

UCU votes to strike against Edinburgh Uni cuts plans

21 May 2025

University bosses refuse to rule out cutting staff

Britain / 6 May 2025

Labour to name and shame universities over vice-chancellor pay and poor student outcomes

6 May 2025

General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin

Britain / 5 May 2025

Cardiff university unions' celebrate no compulsory redundancies pledge

5 May 2025

Britain / 2 May 2025

University of East Anglia staff walk out over threat of compulsory redundancies

2 May 2025

Education / 30 April 2025

Planned strike action at Cardiff University suspended as Acas talks start

30 April 2025

A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, E

Britain / 6 April 2025

Strike ballot opens against University of Edinburgh cuts

6 April 2025

Britain / 1 April 2025

Dundee University guilty of ‘academic vandalism’ over job cuts, says union

1 April 2025

Britain / 1 April 2025

College leaders accused of ‘Trumpian tactics’ on pay negotiations

1 April 2025

Britain / 25 March 2025

UCU Cardiff members vote for strike action to fight job cuts

25 March 2025

A general view of Sheffield Hallam University

Britain / 24 March 2025

Sheffield Hallam lecturers walk out over withheld pay

24 March 2025

Britain / 21 March 2025

UCU promises strike action unless compulsory redundancy threat is removed

21 March 2025

Britain / 17 March 2025

University of Bradford staff back strike action over 300 job cull

17 March 2025

Britain / 17 March 2025

Politicians must ‘up their game’ on Scottish university crisis

17 March 2025

Britain / 14 March 2025

University of Bedfordshire job cuts will impact students, unions warn

14 March 2025

Britain / 11 March 2025

Crisis-ridden University of Dundee to axe 632 jobs

11 March 2025

Britain / 10 March 2025

Workers strike against University of Strathclyde pension ‘cash grab’

10 March 2025

Britain / 4 March 2025

Union welcomes ministers' meeting with higher education chiefs

4 March 2025

Britain / 4 March 2025

‘Unprecedented crisis’ with more than 5,000 higher education jobs at risk, UCU warns

4 March 2025

Britain / 24 February 2025

Dundee lecturers begin 15-day strike

24 February 2025

Britain / 18 February 2025

University of South Wales expected to announce job cuts

18 February 2025

People take part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliament,

Britain / 13 February 2025

Union demands answers after University of Edinburgh principle says ‘nothing off the table’ in the quest to cut costs

13 February 2025

Unite Wales members demonstrate outside the Senedd against t

Britain / 4 February 2025

Trade unionists besiege Senedd to demand changes to the Welsh budget

4 February 2025

The sign for the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Ca

Britain / 3 February 2025

UCU to demonstrate outside the Welsh parliament demanding better funding

3 February 2025

Britain / 31 January 2025

University of Dundee lecturers vote to strike

31 January 2025

Britain / 29 January 2025

UCU ballot Cardiff University staff for industrial action to oppose proposed job cuts

29 January 2025

Britain / 28 January 2025

UCU demands alternative action to avert 400 job losses at Cardiff University

28 January 2025

A general view of Newcastle University in Newcastle

Britain / 13 January 2025

UCU members at Newcastle University to be balloted for strike action over budget cuts

13 January 2025

A general view of a graduation ceremony at University Campus

Britain / 15 November 2024

Regulator warns three-quarters of universities could be in the red by next year

15 November 2024

Campaigners take part in a protest against the Government's

Britain / 30 October 2024

Unions welcome rise in public spending – but say rich should have been made to pay fair share

30 October 2024

Britain / 23 October 2024

College staff win up to 16.5% pay award after 13 days of strikes

23 October 2024

Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israel

Britain / 10 October 2024

Workers and students take day of action to demand ceasefire

10 October 2024

Britain / 24 September 2024

Education key to addressing growing inequalities, UCU fringe hears

24 September 2024

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arriving in Downing s

Britain / 18 September 2024

Call for boost to teachers' wages after report exposes decline in pay and escalating workloads

18 September 2024

University staff are joined by politicians and students as t

Britain / 17 September 2024

Saddling students with more debt is untenable, UCU warns as Universities UK calls for higher fees

17 September 2024

NO WAR: Protesters form a blockade outside weapons manufactu

TUC Congress 2024 / 11 September 2024

Why is there money for ‘defence’ but austerity for the people?

11 September 2024

JO GRADY explains why we must call for investment to be redirected away from militarism and foreign wars towards the public good

Britain / 9 September 2024

Prison teachers getting high from vaping in jails, TUC Congress told

9 September 2024

Britain / 30 August 2024

Five colleges in North East to be hit by four days of strikes

30 August 2024

Britain / 30 August 2024

Hull University lecturers to be balloted on strike action

30 August 2024

Britain / 19 August 2024

Goldsmiths uni staff end dispute following partial victory over brutal job cuts

19 August 2024

Britain / 11 August 2024

Staff at Sheffield Hallam University to take four days of industrial action

11 August 2024

Britain / 9 August 2024

UCU calls for independent audit of Goldsmiths ‘deeply dishonest’ jobs cull plans

9 August 2024

Britain / 8 August 2024

Britain's biggest private pension scheme dumps £80m of Israeli assets following pressure from UCU

8 August 2024

Britain / 31 July 2024

Goldsmiths staff back continuous strike action over ‘brutal’ redundancy plans

31 July 2024

Britain / 23 July 2024

University faces strike threat over ‘punitive pension change’ plans

23 July 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to arms firm

Britain / 22 July 2024

Labour launches body to rebuild England’s skills training system

22 July 2024

UCU general secretary Jo Grady welcomes the move but says recruiting more college teachers will be essential to Skills England's success

Goldsmiths University of London, in New Cross, south London

Britain / 15 July 2024

Goldsmiths staff announce strike as redundancies will leave university ‘academic wasteland’

15 July 2024

Britain / 19 June 2024

Hundreds rally to save further education in Scotland

19 June 2024

Students during a graduation ceremony at Loughborough Univer

Britain / 13 June 2024

Only wealthy students are getting the university experience, university lectures warns

13 June 2024

Poll reveals record numbers of students are working long hours just to survive

Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents destroyed by Isra

Britain / 31 May 2024

University and College Union backs motions in support of Palestine at its conference

31 May 2024

Britain / 30 May 2024

UCU staff strike cancels annual conference's second day

30 May 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks picks up breakfast for the

Britain / 29 May 2024

Working class will lose out under Tories' apprenticeship plans, union warns

29 May 2024

Britain / 16 May 2024

Higher education funding ‘broken’ as two in five universities face deficits this year, UCU says

16 May 2024

A teacher and students in a classroom, September 12, 2018

Britain / 3 May 2024

Most college staff want Ofsted inspections to be abolished, a damning union study has found

3 May 2024

Britain / 19 April 2024

Teaching budgets slashed at Scotland's universities

19 April 2024

A Lockheed Martin F35B Lightning II demonstrates it's STOVL

Britain / 24 March 2024

Northern TUC narrowly passes motion against university's deal with arms manufacturer

24 March 2024

Britain / 14 March 2024

Strike threat at University of Winchester over ‘catastrophic’ job cull

14 March 2024

Britain / 1 March 2024

Grady wins next term as UCU leader

1 March 2024

Britain / 29 February 2024

Scottish university court endorses cuts plan

29 February 2024

People taking part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliamen

Britain / 28 February 2024

Aberdeen TUC fight university language cuts

28 February 2024

Mark O’Brien from Liverpool University UCU with Danny Ritc

Britain / 21 February 2024

BAE Systems and HPE ‘sent away with their tails between their legs’ after pressure from activists

21 February 2024

Students during a graduation ceremony, December 14, 2023

Britain / 20 February 2024

Scottish universities facing ‘trade-offs’ as budgets are slashed

20 February 2024

Palestinians mourn a child killed by an Israeli bombardment

Britain / 19 February 2024

UCU condemns USS's ‘shameful’ refusal to review its investment links with Israel

19 February 2024

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks at a p

Britain / 12 February 2024

Royal Society of Arts boycotted by internationally renowned speakers amid staff pay dispute

12 February 2024

A woman looking at matter under a microscope, May 19, 2008

Britain / 31 January 2024

New report exposes ‘gig-economy’ reality of prestigious university research departments

31 January 2024

Britain / 28 January 2024

Unions in Wales press for crisis-hit probation and youth justice services to be devolved

28 January 2024

Britain / 16 January 2024

Pace of change for women and black staff in senior university positions is still ‘far too slow’

16 January 2024

Britain / 16 January 2024

Workers at London's biggest college group begin eight days of strike action

16 January 2024

Britain / 9 January 2024

College staff in the North East go on strike again in long-running pay row

9 January 2024

Lecturers and other university staff take part in a rally on

Britain / 20 November 2023

Lecturers threaten to strike over brutal Oxford Brookes cuts

20 November 2023

Britain / 14 November 2023

University & College Union secure pay offers at three colleges

14 November 2023

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: NEU picket line at Regent High School i

Opinion / 27 October 2023

Union muscle needs honing

27 October 2023

NIGEL FLANAGAN argues that to built on the modest success of the recent wave of strikes it is indispensable to arrest the continuing decline of membership

Britain / 5 October 2023

University workers win full pension restoration after year-long dispute

5 October 2023

Members of UCU, Unison and Unite take strike action in Leeds

Britain / 29 September 2023

Lecturers at more than 30 universities stage last of five days of strike action

29 September 2023

Students occupied Pavilion Parade in Brighton as a show of s

Britain / 24 September 2023

Brighton students enter second week of occupation

24 September 2023

Britain / 18 September 2023

University workers will not back down, UCU warns

18 September 2023

Britain / 18 September 2023

Brighton students occupy university building in solidarity with striking lecturers

18 September 2023

Features / 11 September 2023

Our fight is your fight: why you should back the UCU

11 September 2023

Staff and student voices on the fight for further and higher education

Britain / 10 September 2023

Strike begins at University of Stirling as staff fight for salaries and working conditions

10 September 2023

Britain / 6 September 2023

UCU announce strikes and end of marking boycott

6 September 2023

Protesters marching during a rally in London as members of t

Britain / 4 September 2023

College strike ballot opens as staff say low pay is impacting their mental health

4 September 2023

Industrial / 25 August 2023

University of Sussex condemned over plans to sack lecturer despite advertising a new permanent post

25 August 2023

Students at Ark Acton Academy in Acton, west London, receive

Britain / 17 August 2023

A-level results reflect widening gap between rich and poor during pandemic, experts warn

17 August 2023

Northern students fall further behind those in London and south-east England

Britain / 15 August 2023

University of the Highlands and Islands staff balloting for strike over compulsory redundancies

15 August 2023

Britain / 15 August 2023

Lecturers vote for new strikes as pay dispute enters second academic year

15 August 2023

Britain / 8 August 2023

Lecturer living off £4 a day due to 100% pay deduction for taking part in marking boycott

8 August 2023

Protesters marching during a rally as members of the Univers

Britain / 2 August 2023

University marking boycott continues after bosses refuse to restore pay deductions

2 August 2023

Queensgate campus at the University of Huddersfield

Britain / 28 July 2023

More than 100 jobs at risk at University of Huddersfield in fifth round of redundancies

28 July 2023

Protesters marching during a rally in London while members o

Britain / 25 July 2023

Emergency protests to hit universities amid ongoing pay and conditions dispute

25 July 2023

Britain / 25 July 2023

University's axing of African history course an ‘attack on black academia,' UCU warns

25 July 2023

Britain / 21 July 2023

Staff to rally against compulsory redundancies at Brighton University on Saturday

21 July 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Mulberry School

Britain / 17 July 2023

Sunak's university plans undermine ‘fundamental values of education’, says Jo Grady

17 July 2023

Protesters march during a rally as members of the University

Britain / 14 July 2023

College lecturers will initiate biggest-ever strike ballot in further education without a satisfactory wage increase by September

14 July 2023

Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the launch

Britain / 6 July 2023

Starmer accused of undermining striking university staff after saying he feels ‘very uncomfortable’ with marking boycott

6 July 2023

Britain / 30 June 2023

University claims that only 2.6% of students are affected by marking boycott ‘nonsense’, say UCU

30 June 2023

Britain / 16 June 2023

Edinburgh University staff syage strike as boss threatens to deduct workers’ pay

16 June 2023

UCU members and supporters at the University of Leeds during

Britain / 12 June 2023

University of Leeds lecturers rally ahead of indefinite strike

12 June 2023

Britain / 2 June 2023

Universities devaluing degrees by prioritising graduations and breaking the marking boycott, trade unionists say

2 June 2023

Britain / 2 June 2023

Strikes to hit six higher education institutions in Yorkshire next week

2 June 2023

Britain / 31 May 2023

Five days of strikes to hit Sheffield Hallam University in fight over pay dockings

31 May 2023

A sign put up inside the University of Brighton

Britain / 30 May 2023

Student protesters at the University of Brighton occupy vice chancellor’s office for sixth day

30 May 2023

People take part in a demonstration for trans rights outside

Britain / 30 May 2023

UCU members vote overwhelmingly to stand with trans and non-binary people

30 May 2023

Eyes Left / 30 May 2023

Is the labour movement consensus shifting on Ukraine?

30 May 2023

In a moment of political clarity, the UCU voted against deepening the conflict in Ukraine and committed itself to anti-war campaigning. This is a promising sign — now we need the other unions, writes ANDREW MURRAY