higher education committee

20 January 202420 January 2024

UCU Elections: time to transform UCU

large demonstration outside King's Cross railway station with UCU banners

Saira Weiner is standing for UCU General Secretary - click to view her campaign website — Our candidate for General Secretary: **Saira Weiner**

Peter Evans is standing for Vice President (from FE) - click to view his campaign website — Our candidate for Vice President: **Peter Evans**

Post-16 education is in crisis. Successive Conservative governments have slashed funding and ramped up a process of marketisation and privatisation across the sectors. That’s why UCU …

17 February 202219 February 2022

Democracy Now! How can members control our disputes?

The issue of union democracy has again become important in the context of UCU’s higher education disputes.

Many members are wondering how the Higher Education Committee (HEC) could blatantly ignore the views expressed at the previous Branch Delegate Meeting (BDM) …

5 July 20215 July 2021

HEC snubs the membership and delays the fights

Report of Higher Education Committee of Friday 2nd July

Meeting for the first time since annual Congress and Sector Conferences, UCU’s Higher Education Committee decided on Friday to delay a Special HE Sector Conference (SHESC) until after the summer.

This …