Trade unions and global restructuring

When the end of the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) was announced on 6 September, it was finally clear that the University and College ...

Since 2018, UCU has been in almost permanent industrial action over cuts to pensions, pay and working conditions including more than 60 days...

Yet again, staff at universities across the UK are out on strike to defend their working conditions and pensions. Unsurprisingly, university...

Yet again, university employers (UUK) and the University and College Union (UCU) are at loggerheads over the future of the sector’s USS pens...

On 5 January, the government cancelled all GCSE and A-level exams in England for the summer 2021, following similar decisions by the devolve...

As people are trying to come to terms with the pandemic of the coronavirus, we are told that we are all in the same boat. Higher Educatio...

In June 2019, the University and College Union (UCU) released a report,  Counting the costs of casualisation in higher education . It det...

The increase in tuition fees to £9000 per year and the removal of the cap, allowing Universities to recruit as many students as they want...

Across our joint collaborations, one of the key features has not just been our co-authorship but also our joint teaching. The latter has ...

Despite strong support from the Greek people, in July 2015 the Greek government by Alexis Tsipras gave in and accepted major further aust...

The University and College Union (UCU) and the employers’ organisation of pre-1992 Higher Education institutions UUK are currently involv...

The University and College Union (UCU) and the employers’ association for pre-1992 institutions UUK are currently locked into a bitter ...

On Thursday 22 February, lecturers at most universities in the UK went on strike. They also stayed on strike on Friday 23 February. They ...

The annual Congress of the University and College Union (UCU) met in Brighton from 26 to 29 May to assess the situation of Further and Hi...

Employability is a powerful and increasingly dominant word within the universities. Nottingham University is proud to be “ranked in the w...

Only three years after closing the final salary pension scheme of USS for new members of staff in pre-1992 Higher Education (HE) insti...

Higher education in England is being subjected to sustained marketisation with undergraduate degrees in arts, humanities and social science...

Similar to other public sector areas in the UK, Higher Education (HE) is currently under attack. The introduction of tuition fees of up to ...

UK Higher Education (HE) is being transformed. The introduction of tuition fees of up to £9000 per year induces changes across the whole sy...

Restructuring in Higher Education around narrow objectives of employability with a focus on economic benefits is not only occurring in the ...