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  • 21 February 2020

    Solid support for strikes as students call on university heads to do more to solve disputes Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses…

  • 19 November 2019

    The next government should invest in the further and higher education workforce, end the hostile environment for migrants and scrap arbitrary metrics like the Teaching…

  • 29 August 2019

    The Prime Minister must provide urgent assurances about the rights of EU citizens in the event of a no-deal Brexit, UCU has urged today. In a letter to the Prime…

  • 7 December 2018

    UCU dismisses colleges' "insulting" pay offer UCU yesterday described a pay offer of just 1% from the Association of Colleges (AoC) as a wholly inadequate response…

  • 2 November 2018

    Ministers urged to back universities after bankruptcy fears Yesterday the i led with the news that three English universities were on the "brink of bankruptcy".…

  • 30 November 2006

    UCU has added its backing to an emergency fund for Iraqi academics. The fund, launched by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), will lobby the UK…

  • 1 June 2006

    The new University and College Union has today been created by the amalgamation of the Association of University Teachers and NATFHE - The University & College…