7.30pm Monday 4 May

We will devote this weeks webinar to discussing strategy and how we mobilise to defend post 16 education.
In this organising meeting we …

In this article I explore various aspects of the changes in education and working practices which we are seeing in our colleges and universities as …

When this crisis is over, we should not turn back to a system that has so badly failed many young people.
TES article by Sean Vernell

The announcement to …

The outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19, has created panic across the globe.  The Italian government has just placed 16 million people under quarantine. Schools, universities, …

Dear colleagues
We are writing as UCULeft ‘Four Fights’ negotiators who have been engaged in complex negotiations which are ongoing.
It is important to note that these …

The long awaited second Joint Expert Panel (JEP) report on USS was released on Friday 13th December. In this brief commentary many of the key positive and negative points of the Second JEP Report are examined.

Saturday’s Democracy Congress saw a mobilisation by the right-wing ‘Independent Broad Left’ (IBL) to block rule changes proposed by the UCU’s Democracy Commission intended to …

Labour has promised to end the historic funding inadequacies and place the sector at the centre of its radical proposals. What will be the future …

Success has a thousand parents, failure is an orphan. That the 2018 USS dispute transformed UCU everyone in the union accepts. Similarly, it was the members …

Marketisation is destroying education in our colleges, universities, prisons and the adult education sector. UCU is at a crossroads – how do we get the …