33+ min ago  (594+ words) Delegates from further education at UCU union's annual congress backed a ballot for action across colleges in England over pay and conditions." At the further education conference on Thursday, union members slammed the "opt-in and opt-out culture" where only some…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (944+ words) Higher education is at crisis point." Yet at the UCU union's annual congress this week there was a battle to get the union leadership to back nationwide action this autumn." Higher education delegates voted for a "coordinated national campaign" across…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (996+ words) Students and workers are being hit hard by the wave of redundancies and course closures in universities. One of the latest institutions affected is the University of Hertfordshire. Undergraduate students there will no longer be able to study history, philosophy,…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1108+ words) School workers, children and supporters joined a lobby at Waltham Forest Town Hall last week Workers at four schools in Waltham Forest, east London, are taking action. NEU union members at Belmont Park, Henry Maynard Primary and South Grove Primary…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (759+ words) UCU members at Nottingham university strike Hundreds of University of Nottingham workers struck, marched and rallied on Friday. UCU union members and supporters played samba drums inside the university building and put a "Wanted" sign on the door of vice…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (355+ words) Solidarity and strength on the picket line "No ifs, not buts, no education cuts!" That's what NEU and Unison union members chanted outside St Barnabas' Cathedral in Nottingham on Tuesday. " Teachers and support workers at nine of 25 schools within the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (571+ words) F35 B Lightning II jet University bosses are slashing jobs and courses. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has told them they are autonomous institutions'so they should not expect a government bailout. But there is one area where the state is happy to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (536+ words) Education workers rallied outside the building where the annual pay cycle was being decided Education workers from Soas university, Capital City College Group (CCCG) and two schools in Camden, north London, struck together on Thursday. The striking UCU and Unison…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (611+ words) Workers are fighting for regrading to get the pay they deserve (Pic: Guy Smallman) Teaching assistants (TAs) at two primary schools in Camden, north London, are on strike for five days this week in their fight for even pay." The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (435+ words) Workers at Britain's "largest exam board, AQA, struck on Monday for pay restoration. There were lively picket lines outside three AQA offices in Manchester, Guildford and Milton Keynes. Over a million students sit AQA exams every year, with around 1, 400 "workers…...