UCU: A Union without a leadership

The Marking and Assessment boycott has been on since 20th April, and has proved the power of members to halt the universities’ ability to award degrees. Members have shown a magnificent willingness to take and sustain the action in the …

NEC Report 16 June 2023

The newly-constituted UCU National Executive Committee (NEC) met for the first time post Congress. The principal business of the first NEC meeting is usually fairly routine: to agree timetables for the year, and protocols in the absence of officers in …

No to redundancies at Brighton University!

Some 500 people demonstrated on Saturday against the assault on jobs at Brighton University. Despite having received more than 80 ‘volunteers’ for redundancy, the University is still insisting that 26 more must be forced out of their jobs. More than …