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Workers at the City of Bristol College are balloting for strike action over job losses.

Lecturers at City College Birmingham took strike action on Tuesday of this week against job cuts.

Students and workers at Tower Hamlets College, east London, are involved in a rollercoaster campaign to stop education cuts and defend jobs.

This year’s EIS (Scotland’s teaching union) annual general meeting in Perth last week took place against a backdrop of massive budget cuts combined with a major overhaul of the curriculum from nursery to secondary.

Walkout at Tower Hamlets college Around 200 teachers, support workers, youth workers, admin staff and students walked out at Tower Hamlets college, east London, on Monday.

There are two vital elections happening in the National Union of Teachers (NUT).

National Union of Teachers (NUT) branches are starting to nominate candidates for key leadership positions in the union.

Lecturers at the UCU congress passed several motions in support of the Palestinians, including some in defiance of legal advice.

This year’s UCU lecturers’ union annual congress was shaped by the impact of the growing recession and the fight for jobs and education.

The UCU higher education sector conference focused on our current national pay claim, workload and redundancies. It also addressed issues of governance, bullying, funding, casualisation and privatisation.

UCU congress took a tough stance against the government’s points based immigration system (PBSI), voting to boycott it and to campaign for it to be abolished.

The University and Colleges Union (UCU), which represents 120,000 lecturers in further and higher education across Britain, will debate whether to support a boycott of Israel at its annual congress this week.