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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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
UCU
Industrial / 11 February 2026
Workers fight redundancy threats on Scottish campuses
11 February 2026
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 9 February 2026
Durham University staff vote to strike after hundreds of jobs slashed in £20m cuts drive
9 February 2026
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Industrial / 8 February 2026
University staff strike over £10,000 fire & rehire pensions loss
8 February 2026
UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, September 8, 2025
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Scotland / 5 January 2026
Lecturers at four Scottish universities start strike ballots
5 January 2026
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Major concessions to Cardiff University redundancy plans welcomed by UCU
19 December 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, September 8, 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
dundee protest
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
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 / 21 October 2025
University workers announce strike at Highlands university
21 October 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
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 10 June 2025
Academics hit back at Cardiff University's revised plans to axe jobs
10 June 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 28 May 2025
Cardiff University scraps plans to axe courses thanks to UCU campaigning
28 May 2025
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Industrial / 21 May 2025
UCU votes to strike against Edinburgh Uni cuts plans
21 May 2025

University bosses refuse to rule out cutting staff

University graduates
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 2 May 2025
University of East Anglia staff walk out over threat of compulsory redundancies
2 May 2025
General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin
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
Members and supporters of the University and College Union (
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
University graduates
Britain / 4 March 2025
Union welcomes ministers' meeting with higher education chiefs
4 March 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 4 March 2025
‘Unprecedented crisis’ with more than 5,000 higher education jobs at risk, UCU warns
4 March 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 24 February 2025
Dundee lecturers begin 15-day strike
24 February 2025
University graduates
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 31 January 2025
University of Dundee lecturers vote to strike
31 January 2025
General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin
Britain / 29 January 2025
UCU ballot Cardiff University staff for industrial action to oppose proposed job cuts
29 January 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
Pupils in a classroom
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
A man vaping
Britain / 9 September 2024
Prison teachers getting high from vaping in jails, TUC Congress told
9 September 2024
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 9 August 2024
UCU calls for independent audit of Goldsmiths ‘deeply dishonest’ jobs cull plans
9 August 2024
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 8 August 2024
Britain's biggest private pension scheme dumps £80m of Israeli assets following pressure from UCU
8 August 2024
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 31 July 2024
Goldsmiths staff back continuous strike action over ‘brutal’ redundancy plans
31 July 2024
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
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
University graduates, July 16, 2008
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
University graduates, October 12, 2011
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
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 14 March 2024
Strike threat at University of Winchester over ‘catastrophic’ job cull
14 March 2024
UCU general secretary Jo Grady
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
A member of prison staff
Britain / 28 January 2024
Unions in Wales press for crisis-hit probation and youth justice services to be devolved
28 January 2024
People taking part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliamen
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
Members and supporters of the University and College Union (
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