Higher education

Vigil in Trafalgar Square for Jason Arday (pic: Guy Smallman)
Anti-racism

Tens of thousands gather in Trafalgar Square to remember Jason Arday

Speakers at London vigil slam media campaign against Jason Arday
17 August 2026
Jason Arday was the youngest black professor at Cambridge (Picture:llee_wu/flickr)
Anti-racism

‘Universities are made for people who are white’

Universities are systems of white supremacy
17 August 2026
Workers at Sheffield Hallam took 1 days of strike action
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University bosses under fire as strike wave grows

Workers fight the decimation of the university sector
23 June 2026
Photo of UCU union conference with speaker general secretary Jo Grady
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UCU union conference: delegates demand national fightback as university crisis deepens

UCU rank and file push for autumn strike wave over university cuts
29 May 2026
Further education workers hold up signs saying 'fair pay for college worker'
Trade Unions

Unions round-up: Fight is on against austerity cuts in further education

Workers fight low pay, unbearable workloads and austerity
02 December 2025
Strike at Dundee university
Trade Unions

Dundee university strikers force bosses to back down

But there are still battles head
29 April 2025
University crisis
In Depth

The slow death of universities

Britain's crisis in higher education
27 April 2025
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Hundreds rally on first day of Newcastle university strikes

Resisting the funding crisis
05 March 2025
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Student encampments for Palestine spread to 25 universities

New sites have sprung up this week
13 May 2024
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Keep building struggle after UCU general secretary re-elected

Jo Grady only just survived criticism of her record
01 March 2024
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Fightback against university cuts in Aberdeen and Sheffield

University bosses are trying to savage education
09 January 2024
UCU university Grady
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Why UCU strike vote fell short—plus Barnet social work and Scottish local government

Why the higher education strike has ended plus round up
07 November 2023
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6,000 university workers out in a pay battle

HE workers reject below-inflation pay offer
03 October 2023
Picket line at Sterling university
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Rage as union leaders sabotage university strikes

UCU union leaders abandoned strikes
19 September 2023
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Chesterfield Eriks strike + education resistance + taking on ISS outsourcers

Battles over pay across Britain
12 September 2023
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New university strikes coming—but union leaders continue sabotage

Walkouts from Monday 25 to Friday 29 September
08 September 2023
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Major education battles in Brighton and Edinburgh

Strikes to defend jobs and union rights
04 September 2023
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Battles in further education colleges and universities

89 colleges in strike ballots
29 August 2023
exams tests Tories
The SW View

Exam system is a failure

Students should fight back
15 August 2023
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University strikes add to marking boycott

Action at Winchester, Sheffield, Soas and Imperial
25 May 2023
Brighton UCU members join the NHS physiotherapists picket line
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Resist pay and job attacks at universities

More strikes and action can win
09 May 2023
a UCU picket line of striking university workers
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University bosses meet marking boycott with pay threat

University workers start boycotting exams
25 April 2023
UCU members picket outside Queen Mary University in east London
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University workers begin marking boycott—despite union leaders’ efforts

Special conference rejects delays
20 April 2023
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University workers’ battle at key moment

The UCU strikes are a battle against bosses and union leaders
01 April 2023