Coming after previous rounds of job losses, these cuts represent a devastating blow to our university, our students and our community. nation.cymru/news/aberyst...

Union fears loss of more than 150 jobs at Aberystwyth University

Nation.Cymru staff More than 150 jobs could go at Aberystwyth University under a £16m savings plan, according to the University and College Union (UCU). The university has confirmed it will employ few...

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Good luck to @uonucu.bsky.social as they continue their fight to save jobs 💪

University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 11h ago

The fact remains that labour organising is hard work, and "wins" almost always come in small doses. The deal we struck is not enough, but our actions so far have had a meaningful impact, saving by some estimates around 200 jobs with the acceptance of this deal.

Shockingly, the University of Brighton has threatened to de-recognise both UCU and @unisontheunion. Workers deserve so much better than this. Help us oppose this threat. Write to the university board now: bit.ly/WriteToBrightonUni

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Strike Map@strikemap.org · 2d ago

🛑Stop De-Recognition at University of Brighton The board at #brightonuni has threatened to de-recognise both @ucu.org.uk and @unison.org.uk. They have asked for the whole movement to oppose this threat. Write now 👉 bit.ly/WriteToBrigh... #StrikeMap

Aberystwyth University UCU is devastated and angry at the announcement that over 150 jobs are to be lost at Aberystwyth University. We estimate a quarter to a third of our academic staff will not be employed at the university by this time next year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aberystwyth University's £16m savings will lead to 150 job losses, says union

The university says it has to make "difficult" decisions to save £16m by the end of 2027-28.

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'Union members at the University of Nottingham have suspended their two-month strike after receiving an improved offer from management.' Progress? Fingers very crossed.

Nottingham strike paused as managers make new offer on job cuts

University and College Union members had been due to walk throughout autumn term

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needless destruction - Aberyswyth announcing huge job losses because the current funding model is just not viable bsky.app/profile/hele...

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 13h ago

The UK forced universities to rely on international income for sustainability by cutting off funds from elsewhere (home students, block funding, research funding) & is now cutting that off too. Universities are one of our best assets, in both soft power & knowledge generation and this is madness.

" 150 jobs are to be lost at Aberystwyth University. This follows the loss of more than 150 colleagues in the last eighteen months in the previous round of restructuring." #HigherED #edusky #Wales #UK aberystwyth.web.ucu.org.uk/aberystwyth-...

TODAY - Prof. Emma Stafford will be giving a talk on 'From Homer to Hollywood: Nolan's Odyssey and the traumatised hero' as part of the Leeds City of Languages festival. Free and open to all, but please book via the webpage below! leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-...

Fantastic turnout for the launch of the Languages for All Leeds Hub

Please share this opportunity to contribute to the ongoing project to digitise @vch-home.bsky.social red books with all early career researchers and/or professionals who you think would enjoy it! More information here www.history.ac.uk/research/cen...

Well when you put it like that... #UoN #UCU UoNUCU #UniversityOfNottingham #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Had a fabulous time at the @wigsblog.bsky.social conference! Like a breath of fresh air to learn about all the fantastic research going on in German Studies and catch up with some dear colleagues! So many PGRs doing great research too!

6 November 1936: the German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky is released from concentration camp. Later that month, he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament. www.ndr.de/geschichte/k... via @ndr.de

Im KZ schwer misshandelt: Carl von Ossietzky wird 1936 Friedensnobelpreis zuerkannt

Der Hamburger Journalist und Herausgeber der "Weltbühne" kommt am 6. November 1936 aus KZ-Haft frei. Gut zwei Wochen später wird Carl von Ossietzky rückwirkend der Friedensnobelpreis zuerkannt. 1938 s...

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6 November 1939 | Sonderaktion Krakau, a German pacification action in Krakow targeting the Polish academic community. 183 people were arrested, mainly professors and lecturers of the Jagiellonian University. Most were imprisoned in KL Sachsenhausen. At least 20 of them perished.

Applications are open for our IHR Trust Bridging Fellowships. 6-month support for UK historians affected by redundancies, end of contracts, or precarity post-PhD. Deadline: 31 Jan 2027📄 Apply: buff.ly/vekv8yG

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The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme offers fellowships and bursaries to help historians facing precarious employment complete unfinished research and plan their next career steps.

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As concise as it is devastating: FT editorial sets out the recent policy pressures on university finances. Still striking how little understood all of this is outside the sector www.ft.com/content/ec63...

1/ Huge congratulations to China Miéville on winning the 2026 @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for The Rouse! And thank you, China, for donating your prize money to the UCU hardship fund. 10k is a lot to give up, and we’re so grateful for your comradeship. From his speech:

Confirmed!

Marie Gardiner@mariegardiner.bsky.social · last wk.

Yo, you can add pronouns to your bio properly now

I mean tbf I blame them both, plenty of disgrace to go about.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last wk.

'University leaders should accept that their own poor decision-making contributed to mass job losses in UK academia rather than simply blaming government policy, education secretary Lucy Powell has said.' Presumably whilst waving the international study levy and SPG grant reductions aloft.

It’s been a very long time coming but I recently published my first journal article! I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me and my work over the years and especially to my two brilliant editors @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and @ruthdav.bsky.social who are truly a dream team

Join us to explore Northern English accents and dialects! Drawing on a chapter from her non-fiction, Back Up North, Ally Shepherd, explores the rich variety of accents and dialects across Northern England. More information and how to book on: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/ey-up...

I saw this on Friday in Bradford and it's fantastic! Great use of archival materials to really situate the events in their context. Not to be missed!

Remember LOP@rememberlop.bsky.social · last wk.

The documentary Rebellion, telling the story of the #Bradford12, is showing at the @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social this week. To mark the occasion, here's the front page of Leeds Other Paper from the end of the Bradford 12 trial in 1982. #LIFF #LIFF2026

I’m now surrounded by highly-qualified people stuck in the academic gig economy. This session should help build a community to resist it.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 2w ago

Insecure contracts have no place in education. We’re bringing casualised members together to share ideas, organise and shape the fight for secure employment. Help set the agenda at UCU’s Anti-Casualisation Committee event. Submit session ideas by 1 November. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The 25-day UCU workers' strike at Edinburgh University is over. On Friday, a concluding rally mocked our senior management for treating the students like cash cows. Many at the rally dressed as cows. Management were udder-wise engaged, sadly too busy milking the students to be there in person.

🧵It is 1970, the demolition has already swept through Institution Street in Leeds, leaving a landscape of mud, rubble and empty ground, yet one little terrace remains standing. Inside, people were still living there, surrounded by the remnants of the streets they once knew. The

Our brilliant students have created a website to explain the crisis at Uni of Nottingham, with a full list of sources to back up their points. So proud of and impressed with them: uon.rip @uonucu.bsky.social

“Nottingham is now the only Russell Group university offering zero modern language degrees.” One of the facts students have put together on RIP Uni of #Nottingham uon.rip @uonucu.bsky.social

uon.rip - Here lies Britain’s global university.

Three departments closed. Languages no more. 560 posts cut. £64.5m wiped off Castle Meadow. Read the sourced indictment — and fight for the living.

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Please sign to protest the redundancies in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Birmingham. All staff affected are from migrant and minority ethnic backgrounds. c.org/Y265d4Lgyw

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Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham

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'Critics fear a “two-tier” higher education system is developing in parts of India as more Western universities gain permission to launch branch campuses, with fears that the new names will take staff and students away from underfunded public institutions.'

Local opposition to international universities grows in India

Public backlash to University of Western Australia’s approval to set up shop in Chennai could foreshadow the challenges to come

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Insecure contracts have no place in education. We’re bringing casualised members together to share ideas, organise and shape the fight for secure employment. Help set the agenda at UCU’s Anti-Casualisation Committee event. Submit session ideas by 1 November. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...