Report: NEC meeting, 20 November 2016
The union executive met just after the events of Paris (& Beirut, Russian plane in Sinai, Turkey, Mali). The national …

The UCU National Equality conference in Eastbourne ran from 12 November to 14 November.
The Women’s Conference was on the 12 November. The conference considered the …

We must debate and oppose the Green Paper
 
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The Conservative Government’s Green Paper, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social …

What is the government response to this catastrophe? To bomb a country that has already been bombed backed to the Stone Age and to make it even more difficult for young people from working class backgrounds to access further and higher education. Both of which can lead, as has been shown in the past, to more terrorist attacks and violence on our streets.

The government’s green paper, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, outlines the means by which market forces will be permitted to …

UCU Strike Leaflet 10 Nov
All out all for November 10th strike: defend pay, defend education, strike for the lost generation.
***Update: John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor confirmed …

On Tuesday 10th November UCU’s FE members will be taking strike action. This is over the failure of the employers to make a pay …

The government argues that the sector needs to change to ensure that young people and adults have the necessary skills and education to enter/re-enter the workforce. However it doesn’t take much examination of these proposals to see what really lies behind them.

Defend Education, Defend Equality!
Defend Civil Liberties, Defend Academic Freedom!
Saturday 24 October 2015, Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool
Thanks to Saira Weiner, Liverpool John Moores and Chair of …

The UCU branch at the Open University are in dispute with management over their proposals to close 7 of the English Regional Centres in Birmingham, …