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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 …
Graduate students at Edinburgh have been organising a creative and highly democratic campaign to highlight the university’s attacks on their working conditions, after managers told research students in the School of Social and Political Science that they would be moved …
The ballot results are in. UCU members throughout Higher Education are ready to fight to defend their pay and pensions, and to stand up against inequality, unmanageable workloads and casualisation.
On pay, 73% of members voted yes to strike action, …
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The Government has been forced on the back foot after the Lords pushed through an amendment to the HE Bill which reaffirms what universities are for.
This is an important amendment, because it …