UCU Left calls on members to vote for candidates who are committed to fighting for Health and Safety, workers’ rights, equality and protecting the planet.
In the coming UCU NEC elections it is important all members vote. Low polls comfort only …
Why we shouldn’t welcome the FE White Paper
The new Skills for Jobs White Paper put colleges at the centre of an underfunded, narrow, skills-based and business-led plan.
Last week, the secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, finally launched the government’s FE …
HE Industrial Action Survey: Strategy cannot be ‘fixed’ by surveys
Get ready.
UCU members in Higher Education are about to be surveyed again.
But there is a real danger that the ‘Industrial Action Survey’ will be used, not as originally intended to build the current JNCHES trade dispute, but to …
Report on NEC Briefing on Section 44 and collective action
UCU’s National Executive Committee met for the first time this year on 22nd January for a “briefing” and discussion on the potential for collective action in colleges and universities in defence of members facing the risks of in person …
Organising for No Going Back: Fighting for control of education under lockdown
A UCU Left Open Webinar
No going back: Fighting for control of education under the lockdown.
The latest lockdown has been forced on the Tory government against their will. There are huge lessons for UCU in the successful organising tactics …
No return to unsafe workplaces – ballot to defend education workers, students and communities
Jo Grady’s statement in today’s papers threatening strike action against any premature return to campus and face-to-face teaching should be applauded.
UCU is saying clearly that we will not allow employers to put staff and students at risk as they …
Busting 3 myths about the ‘superiority’ of exams
It is time to abandon our obsession with exams being the best form of assessment
Source: https://www.tes.com/news/busting-3-myths-about-superiority-exams
Education secretary Gavin Williamson’s announcement two weeks ago that GCSE and A-level exams would be cancelled this summer has rightly been welcomed by …
UCU Left statement on the current lockdown
Just one day after declaring that he had no doubt in his mind that schools were safe, Boris Johnson closed schools and colleges as part of another national lockdown. Johnson and the Tories have shown that despite 75,000 deaths from …
The pandemic: A critical point – we must act to save lives
2021 has started where 2020 finished – in chaos, confusion and fear for millions of people. What we do now will determine the future for our students’ education and our members lives.
It is shocking that the death rate has …
LBGT+ Members’ Conference 2020
The LGBT+ conference took place on Saturday 5th December, via Microsoft Teams. It was attended by around 50 colleagues, and we heard from four guest speakers across two panels. Five new members were nominated and elected to the LGBT+ …