YOU WONT BELIEVE: 3 | Mind Blowing Facts

Thousands of university workers stage strike in row over pay and pensions

Around 8,000 union members in Scotland will strike on Thursday, Friday and next Wednesday

Insider UK · Nov 24, 2022

Strikes by Royal Mail workers, lecturers and teachers on same day

One of the biggest walkouts of the year will be held on Thursday

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2022

University of Nottingham 'disappointed' as staff members to strike over pay

It's part of nationwide industrial action taking place across three days

Nottingham Post · Nov 9, 2022

Scrap vanity projects and reinvest spare cash in staff, universities told

The body representing employers in the pay dispute has described the union’s focus on capital investment as “disingenuous”.

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2022

Talk of free speech crisis at universities ‘at odds with evidence’, union say

Jo Grady from University and College Union says government is ‘continuing to whip up a phony culture war’

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2022

Union warns of geographical ‘cold spots’ in access to humanities degrees

An English literature lecturer has decried ‘cultural vandalism’ over the loss of humanities degrees at post-1992 institutions.

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2022

University staff who can’t afford to eat ask for campus food banks

Young academics and support workers are on the breadline as the cost of living crisis bites

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

University union calls for an end to ‘dangerous assault’ on humanities

UCU general secretary calls on Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to stop the ‘bonfire’ of arts and humanities subjects.

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2022

Marking boycott to be enforced by half of university union’s branches

Some universities have threatened to dock pay or hire external staff to mark papers as part of a dispute over pay and pensions.

The Independent UK · May 23, 2022

Minimum entry requirements for loans will impact poor and minority students

New research finds a quarter of poorer students who sat GCSEs in 2011 and 2012 would not have accessed loans under proposed entry requirements.

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022