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UCU Strike latest: Members vote to end strikes

UCU members have voted to bring months of industrial action and uncertainty to a close after voting to accept the terms set out by the UUK, as they continue to propose pension scheme changes. Having come to a close, the result of...

Teaching will go ahead after Easter break

Planned strike action scheduled to take place in the two weeks following the Easter break will not go ahead. In an e-mail circulated to all students, Vice Chancellor Professor Chris Day announced that teaching will take place as...

Strikes set to continue after Easter break as UCU rejects pensions deal

Isabel Sykes brings us the latest updates from the UCU industrial action: strikes to continue after...

Discussions over pensions resume as strike continues to halt teaching

Talks restart on Monday 5th March to bring an end to the lecturers'...

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The “biggest strike our Higher Education Sector has ever seen”

Strike action is taking place in universities across the country. Beginning with a walk-out from 22 to 23 February, the 14 days of strikes will see members of the University and College Union (UCU)  – some 40,000 lecturers...

Lecturers: It’s a strike!

Cuts to and marketisation of university pensions has provoked a strike, but what do students...

Dramatic Student Council ends in officer resignation

NUSU Marginalised Genders Officer, Emily Sherwood, publicly resigned at Student...

The Lecturer Strike: What’s Going On?

The Courier presents the arguments surrounding the UCU industrial action, as the University and its lecturers are divided over changes to the employer contribution towards the USS pension...

Jamie Cameron: The cuts to staff pensions are a needless ideological choice based on faulty figures

Jamie Cameron speaks out in support of the lecturers that are striking over cuts to and marketization of their pensions after UCU balloting...