"This is precisely the moment we need the humanities. To ask what counts as human. To challenge power. To hold new technology to account." Dr Peter Riley of Exeter UCU on why we now, more than ever, need the humanities. Defend jobs. Defend the Humanities. Defend Exeter.

Spending a reported £4.5m on new land while threatening to cut up to 100 jobs? Make it make sense. Glasgow Caledonian staff are on strike today to defend jobs. Show your support to colleagues! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1459...

If you need a strategy just to take your annual leave, something is wrong.

Five ways academics can protect their annual leave

Organisation and communication will ease the way for university staff to book guilt-free time off and prevent burnout

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Working-class students deserve the world. Universities like London Met make that possible every day. Join staff, students and supporters to stand against compulsory redundancies and defend a university created to serve its community. Friday 31 July 1-2pm

Really proud that my union’s (UCU) Women’s Members Standing Committee have signed @nionwomen.bsky.social coalition of women’s groups against the transphobic EHRC “guidance”. notinourname.org.uk/womens-organ...

UCU welcomes the government’s plans to strengthen technical education. But these ambitions can only be achieved with serious investment in post-16 education, fair pay for college staff, and action to tackle the crisis in higher education. Read our full response 👇

Now is the time for ALL staff in HE (and FE and prison education) to join a union. For those in the U.K. in academic roles, academic-related and many administrative or professional services roles, you will be represented by UCU. You can join at my.ucu.org.uk/app/membersh... . #UCU @ucu.org.uk

To the new government: post-16 education cannot wait. Universities are cutting jobs and closing courses. College lecturers are still £10,000 behind schoolteachers. UCU vice president Mark Pendleton told Times Radio ministers must get a grip.

Exeter has one of the best humanities faculties in the country. Management want to take it apart. 500 staff are at risk. 150 posts are going. Most of the damage falls on one faculty. There is no financial case for it. Show your support!

The higher education sector is experiencing a crisis, with diminishing funding, widespread job cuts and course closures. A below inflation pay rise of 2% will only make things worse. Today, we are launching a consultative ballot on UCEA's final pay offer of 2% for 2026/27. Check your inbox.

500 staff at risk. 200 compulsory redundancies. A world-class university under threat. Staff at Exeter are taking the next step in the fight against cuts, with a strike ballot opening on 27 July. ✊ Defend Exeter. Defend education.

UCU has today launched a marketing boycott of London South Bank University. Prospective students deserve to know the truth. LSBU management has fired and rehired its academics and pushed new starters into a sham company with worse pensions. Staff are on strike all week, show your support! ✊

UCU has today launched a marketing boycott of London South Bank University. Prospective students deserve to know the truth. LSBU management has fired and rehired its academics and pushed new starters into a sham company with worse pensions. Staff are on strike all week, show your support! ✊

LSBU’s fire and rehire plans put the university itself at risk. Its nursing provision trains one in four of London’s nurses. 23 MPs have signed a motion calling on LSBU to suspend the plans and negotiate. The university has refused ACAS talks. Ask your MP to sign👇 www.ucu.org.uk/NoFireRehire...

The closure of the University of Essex Southend campus will devastate a community. As Pam Cox, MP for Colchester, told Parliament, the loss is already being felt by residents, staff and students. The government must step in before more communities lose their universities.

Stick together. Keep fighting. UCU members at the Durham Miners’ Gala on what the day means to them and their message for everyone facing job cuts right now ✊

"Humanities are being extinguished by university bosses across the country. We desperately need an emergency rescue package to stop the death-rattle of Britain's great universities." @drjogrady.bsky.social in the Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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The only Black staff in their division. The only staff at risk of redundancy. BCU's Board of Governors meets tomorrow. 🔁 Share this ✍️ Sign the petition: bit.ly/4xtsK8l 📢 Get down tomorrow: 12:30, Parkside Building, Cardigan Street, Birmingham to show your support to staff.

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Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University

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UCU members at London South Bank University have begun a marking and assessment boycott. Strikes will hit exam resit week from 20 to 24 July. LSBU management plans to terminate the contracts of academic staff and rehire them on worse terms. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1457...

Now more than ever, solidarity matters. That's why UCU marched at the Durham Miners' Gala. Jobs under attack. Courses being cut. But no one in this union stands alone. This is what a movement looks like.

Starmer is gone. The genocide is not. Join the national march this Saturday and make sure the new PM hears it on day one. July 18 | 12 noon | 9 Russell Square

▶️ Take action now - write to Goldsmiths senior management and demand they end the lockout and work with @ucu.org.uk to find a resolution to the dispute bit.ly/EndGoldsmithsLockout #StrikeMap #Endthelockout #Goldsmiths

Nottingham isn't just cutting courses, it's threatening to wipe out modern languages degrees across the whole East Midlands. MPs have warned the plans would devastate regional skills, teacher training and opportunities for thousands of young people. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cold-sp...

‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts

Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider

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Emergency protest at the Russian Embassy, London. 6pm. 14 nuclear power plant workers, all trade unionists, seized by Russian occupation forces. Tortured. Given show trials. Sentenced to up to 25 years on fabricated charges. Join us. Solidarity with Ukrainian trade unionists. ✊

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩@ukrainesol.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us outside the Russian Embassy in London on 8 July, 6pm to demand freedom for Ukrainian prisoners held by Russia. We’ll call for the release of POWs and civilians, including the detained Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers. 🇺🇦

“London’s nursing provision could be severely degraded, potentially impacting the health of nine million Londoners.” @drjogrady.bsky.social London South Bank University trains 1 in 4 of London’s nurses and management wants to fire and rehire with worse contracts. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1457...

Many voices, one front. UCU members came out in force to march in this weekend's Pride procession. LGBT+ rights are union business and always have been.

“Management at QMU seem determined to drive through these cuts but the ballot result and the strike this week show UCU members’ determination to protect every job and push back against these unnecessary cuts." Branch co-president Judith Lane. news.stv.tv/east-central...

Queen Margaret University staff strike over job cuts on graduation days

The dispute comes amid plans to save £4 million from staffing costs.

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£485m extra for further education. @drjogrady.bsky.social calls it what it is: a good start, but not good enough. Won by UCU members. And we're not stopping here. Watch the full update on what the announcement means for members 👇 youtu.be/JxLXkXxwB2I?...

FE funding announcement: UCU update for members and branch

YouTube video by UCU - University and College Union

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After years of campaigning and lobbying, UCU has welcomed the fall in employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. With rates falling and employers set to save around £900m, there is now no excuse for post-92 universities to deny staff access to TPS. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1456...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

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