HEC report 28th June 2019. Jo McNeil and Mark Abel were elected as Vice Chairs of the HEC for pre and post 92 sectors respectively.

A message from Dave Muritu
At a branch meeting of over 60 members on 10 June, Sandwell College UCU re-elected me as Branch Secretary in my absence.  The …

Dave Muritu, UCU branch secretary and Maths lecturer was sacked by Sandwell College of Further and Higher Education.  We reject the assertion by Sandwell College that a …

Sudanese military and militia forces are attacking the sit-in outside the Army Command in Khartoum, where thousands of protesters have gathered since 6 April to …

This year’s congress saw the exciting outcome of the the USS and FE strikes which transformed the union and led to the election of a …

The Augar report

The disastrous HE tuition fee market experiment of 2011 is unravelling.

The much-trailed Tory-commissioned review into HE funding, the Augar Report, is proposing cuts in tuition fees to £7,500 but a much harder ‘hit’ on students: faster repayment schedules with a lower threshold.

In UCU Left, we have always argued for cutting tuition fees to zero, bringing back grants, and demanding that “all who may benefit can come” to university (the so-called Robbins Principle). For us, Higher Education is the gift each generation bestows on the next – access to knowledge at the highest level. Make the super-rich pay their taxes, and this is entirely feasible.

But that is not what this cut is about.

UCU General Election (GS) result marks a significant shift to the left. The election of Jo Grady as the new UCU general secretary demonstrates that …

Two years ago UCU’s Further Education Committee launched a pay campaign which broke from the industrial action campaigns of the past. We launched a series …

This is the last week that you will be able to vote for Jo McNeill in the General Secretary elections.
The election closes on Thursday 23rd May. …

Click below for an update on the USS dispute from Carlo Morelli – UCU negotiator on USS JNC.