UCU’s interim Congress took place in the context of a public health crisis where our employers and government are playing fast and loose with our health and using the pandemic to cut costs through sacking staff, including UCU members. But …
UCL’s Academic Board finds the IHRA definition not fit for purpose, urges the College Council to retract its adoption
- University College London’s Academic Board to recommend to the Council of the College that it should set aside the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and replace it with a more appropriate alternative.
- Report finds the IHRA definition “not fit for purpose within
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 …
Democracy and Strategy in a trade union
Mark Pendleton, a newly elected member of UCU’s NEC and supporter of the Grady4GS slate has produced a commentary on the structures of the UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) and NEC that raises a number of important points worthy of …
A fighting union has to fight: Finance is a serious issue – not a blame game
UCU’s strategy of defending USS pensions, pay and conditions in FE and HE has led to over 16,000 low paid new members joining the union. This is testament to the scale of casualisation in both sectors and to the expectation …
We are under attack. This is not the time to end the Four Fights.
As part of a concerted attempt to persuade members to accept UCEA’s offer and end the Four Fights dispute, the General Secretary and those attempting to justify her position have launched an attack on the union’s industrial action strategy.
At …
Organising to defend post-16 education in the Coronavirus era • A UCU Left hosted mobilising and strategy meeting
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 will share experiences of what is happening on the ground where you are. …
Home working, now and beyond: Are we moving to emancipating electronic cottages or alienation in the home?
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 a result of the Coronavirus crisis. I address health and safety, contractual and pedagogic issues.…
Assessment: Time to close down the exam factory
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 cancel GCSE and A-level exams this year and to grade students
Coronavirus, capitalism and class
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, gyms, museums and nightclubs have been closed across the whole country. In total across the …