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735 staff applying for voluntary redundancy at Ulster University Nearly a quarter of the workforce wants out! You can blame the funding model, but when the exodus is this huge University leadership cannot dodge the question: how did it get this bad? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nearly-...

Nearly a quarter of Ulster University staff apply for redundancy

Number of people wanting to leave institution far outweighs expectations, signalling lack of confidence in future direction, says UCU

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🏥 Guy's and St Thomas' is one of the country's biggest #NHS trusts but is treating its staff with utter disdain. They cannot survive living in London on poverty-level wages. Our members are the backbone of the hospital and we support them 100%. #JobsPayConditions

On Friday 20 November, UCU members at universities across the UK will come together for a national day of action. With jobs, courses and the future of higher education under threat, we’re coming together to fight back. Campaign packs will be arriving in early November to help you get ready.

UCU have called a day of action in every University on Friday 20th November. We will be working with sister unions to ensure the biggest possible support for protests, rallies and events. This is part of our fight to protect jobs and courses as well as build solidarity across the union.

After losing employment tribunal brought by a professor, Cambridge University commissioned a review Now review panel faces criticism over its composition, raising concerns about credibility Little confidence that awkward findings will be addressed www.varsity.co.uk/news/32259

Uni sets out terms for whistleblowing review

The review's panel comes after the University lost an employment tribunal case brought by astrophysics professor Wyn Evans

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🪧 Unite members join strike action Glasgow Caledonian university’s attack on jobs, pay and conditions is unnecessary and a vindicative choice by its management. Our members have been left with no option but to fight back against these unnecessary cuts.

Fourth union joins strike at Glasgow Caledonian University

Staff with the Unite union are to join colleagues from the UCU, the EIS and Unison in walking out on Thursday.

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All trade unions on strike at Glasgow Caledonian University Lecture rooms closed, campus shut It’s time for students to demand compensation for disrupted courses Make senior management listen where it hurts them most -- finances😉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fourth union joins strike at Glasgow Caledonian University

Staff with the Unite union are to join colleagues from the UCU, the EIS and Unison in walking out on Thursday.

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Universities are tearing apart the humanities, arts and social sciences. Courses are closing, jobs are disappearing, and students and staff are paying the price. At Exeter, 85% of proposed job cuts targeted these disciplines. We need university leaders who will defend education mot destroy it.

Notice something wrong at your university? Perhaps you witness bullying of a colleague, data fabrication or a randy professor having an affair with an undergraduate student? You do what you're supposed to do You report it, right. Right? nature.com/articles/d41...

The ‘Duty of Candour’ Bill must cover universities Internal reviews, grievances, inquests and external investigations are all undermined by a lack of candour A university Vice-Chancellor was recently found to have lied at an Employment Tribunal ! www.thelearnnetwork.org.uk/post/hillsbo...

Hillsborough Law Must Not Stop at the University Gates

The LEARN Network fully supports our colleagues at ForThe100 in their campaign to amend the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, known as the Hillsborough Law, so that universities are clearly include...

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💙 Work in the NHS? ⚠️ The Health Bill includes the abolition of a number of NHS employers, and allows NHS employees to be transferred out without guaranteed TUPE protection. 💪 Stand up for your pay. Write to the Lords today https://cutt.ly/LordsNHS

OUP must change tack and enter into meaningful negotiations. This is disgraceful behaviour from a well-known employer and our members deserve better - they will always have our full backing.

Oxford University Press defends job cuts as Unite launches further strike action

Oxford University Press says it acted in "good faith" before a union launched more strike action.

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Despite disruption, students overwhelmingly back striking staff at Nottingham. UCU members are fighting job cuts, course closures and the future of higher education. Stand with them: educationitsours.org.uk/map/ Video: Al Jazeera

Problems intensify for Cambridge University Alongside Arday reviews, there is a review into Human Resources, prompted by loss of 'Cambridge Whistleblowing' Tribunal Panel is full of University insiders -- former VC, ex-heads of UCAS & UCEA, an HR executive No staff or union representative

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A former v-c and an ex-head of Ucas will take part in an independent review of human resources processes at the University of Cambridge, established after a tribunal found a whistleblower was victimised for raising concerns over the treatment of female staff #HR #edusky https://ow.ly/qg7050ZUyWR

UCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today. Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/

Higher education is in a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. The funding model is broken, jobs are being lost and courses are being cut. We’re fighting back and demanding the government properly funds our sector. Find out what’s happening and support the fight: educationitsours.org.uk⁠

Nottingham bought a campus for £37.5m. Spent £40m more on it. Its own accounts say it could now sell for £14m. Staff and students are paying for that. 609 jobs. Three departments. More than 40 courses. That's why we're on strike. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Lecturers on strike till Christmas: welcome to Nottingham University

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer

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Education. It’s ours. Now it’s time to fight. Our new website is the digital hub for the campaign to protect post-16 education. Find out how to take action, access campaign tools, share your story and use our solidarity map to support disputes across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk

How can you help fight for the future of higher education? President Dyfrig Jones explains how members’ expertise can help challenge cuts and make the case for change. Get involved: educationitsours.org.uk/home/ucu-brief…

Crisis at Nottingham University has been worsened by senior-management financial decisions Staff & students pay the price -- but not the previous Vice Chancellor who precipitated the disaster Shearer West is now VC at Leeds thetimes.com/uk/education...

Lecturers on strike till Christmas: welcome to Nottingham University

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer

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Cambridge University has set up a committee to investigate its HR processes Three representatives of university management sit on it -- but no one represents employees or has experience investigating institutional retaliation Gloss over or whitewash? 21percent.org?p=4483

Call for greater openness to change by the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Prof Deborah Prentice ... ... who engaged in whistleblowing retaliation & has not yet found the time to apologize She's set up a committee to reflect on the judgement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Call for 'greater openess to change' at University of Cambridge

The vice-chancellor says the death of former professor Jason Arday "is on many people's minds".

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Vice Chancellors pontificate that UK Higher Education needs to get its credibility back From the very people who presided over their own eye-watering pay rises, baffling decisions & erosion of public trust Irony stands at the podium of the conference www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-he-n...

UK HE ‘needs to get its credibility back’, Labour conference hears

Scandals about franchised provision have undermined the sector, and universities need to ensure failings are not repeated, vice-chancellors say

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Four universities on strike today. One map to find them all. Nottingham, Dundee, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh are out. And today we launch the UCU strike map: every dispute across the union, in one place. Find a dispute near you. Visit a picket. Share the map.

Giulio Regeni was a Cambridge PhD student abducted, tortured & murdered in Egypt Egyptian security agents have now been convicted of his kidnapping Cambridge forgot about him Lofty ethics rhetoric looks rather different when the scrutiny turns inward www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

The Egyptian spies, the Cambridge student and the vicious Italian kidnapping

More than 10 years after the violent death of Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni, his family receive the verdict in the trial of four Egyptian security agents accused of kidnap. Alex Croft reports

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Our members have been cast aside and treated extremely poorly by their wealthy employer, who is clearly putting profits over people. @unitetheunion.bsky.social will always fight plans to offshore our members’ jobs.

Strike action over Oxford University Press India offshore jobs bid

Around 30 staff at Oxford University Press are taking further strike action this week in a dispute around offshoring jobs to India.

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Who pays? It can't be workers and the working class. There's nothing left to give. Going after pensioners is not the way to do it. We need to look at billionaires and excessive wealth in our country.

“It’s time for us to stand together.” After fighting off cuts to modern languages, Aberdeen UCU is now facing another major restructure and the threat of further job cuts. Join staff, students and the community at their rally on 6 October. Solidarity with Aberdeen UCU.

Unless the tax-burden on working people is reduced, they will turn their back on politics for good. Labour must also cut household and industrial energy bills, as well as a windfall tax on banks.

Sharon Graham tells Andy Burnham to reduce tax burden on working class

The General Secretary of Unite, Labour's biggest union backer, has warned Prime Minister Andy Burnham that he must reduce the tax burden on the working classes, as the Prime Minister prepares to deliver his first

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