We are unionist but we won’t be striking this time
Striking again would rob students of vital lecture time and damage the progress we’ve made through bargaining, says one anonymous UCU member
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UCU announces eight days of strikes, starting late November
Staff will walk out at 60 universities starting from 25 November
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Universities split over pay deductions for action short of strike
Ucea chair’s institution among those to decide against withholding salaries
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If the UCU strike achieves its aims, we’ll be worse off
The costs of the UCU’s pay and pensions demands make the fights for lighter workloads, greater gender and ethnic pay equality, and less workforce casualisation impossible, says Alexander Douglas
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UCU leader: strikes coming as staff are ‘burnt out and leaving sector’
V-c warns pension and pay strikes will damage whole sector but union members believe experience shows industrial action will force change
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One in three union members joined strikes, say employers
UCU says that universities should focus on solving dispute ‘instead of trying to spin their way out of this’
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One of us: lecturer turned UCU leader hails ‘landmark moment’
Jo Grady promises ‘new era of member engagement’, plus tough line on pay and pensions
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Who will succeed Sally Hunt as UCU’s general secretary?
Jack Grove speaks to the three candidates vying to take over from the University and College’s long-time leader and assesses how they will approach sector’s challenges
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Jo Grady: universities can ignore their staff no longer
After the pensions strike, employees’ sense of ‘helplessness’ has ‘evaporated’, says incoming UCU leader
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UCU general secretary candidates lay out their visions
The three people vying to be the next leader of the UK’s University and College Union explain in their own words what they’ll do if elected
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Breaking the silence about the menopause
Like the rest of society, universities have largely failed to consider the specific needs of menopausal women. Here, one scholar describes how this can lead to marginalisation and bullying – and why...
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The week in higher education – 17 October 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Victory for the UCU requires a unified front
In the wake Sally Hunt’s resignation and pay ballot turnout, the UK’s University and College Union needs to come together to discuss its long-term strategy, says Matt WaddupÂ
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People of the year: who mattered in higher education in 2019
ߣߣÊÓƵ journalists name the academics and administrators who have shaped the debate in the past 12 months
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USS enterprise should torpedo pension fears
Claims of 'financial black hole' ignore strong financial future of HEIs and academic fund members, argues Ed Randall Battered and bruised by the pay dispute, those academic managers and staff who...