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Global dispatches

UCU has a strong tradition of taking up issues at international and European level where they affect members' professional lives, and also working with partner organisations on solidarity and international development issues identified by the membership through UCU's democratic structures.

  • 27 September 2017

    In response to further attacks on academics and journalists in Turkey, UCU has written to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office calling for them to take a stronger…

  • 26 July 2017

    UCU has written to both the vice-chancellor of the Open University and universities minister Jo Johnson to call for a ban on Cuban students attending the Open University…

  • 19 June 2017

    Last month, UCU Congress expressed its concerns about the attack on the Central European University (CEU) from legislation recently passed by the Hungarian government.…

  • 7 June 2017

    Two Syrian academics explore what they had to leave behind and discuss their hopes of returning in the future.

  • 17 May 2017

    Report from UCU president Rob Goodfellow on a humanitarian visit to Colombia in 2016. This was a humanitarian visit to listen to the first hand testimonies of local…