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University of Sheffield staff are now officially locked out! Please consider a small donation to help us continue our fight to save the university from the greed of corporate power! Please also share the link! @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
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January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
University of Sheffield staff are now officially locked out! Please consider a small donation to help us continue our fight to save the university from the greed of corporate power! Please also share the link! @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
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While hundreds of staff have left University of Edinburgh amid £140m of budget cuts, senior managers spent £111,736 on travel and accommodation over the same period.
These are not abstract numbers. They represent real jobs, real students, and real priorities.
These are not abstract numbers. They represent real jobs, real students, and real priorities.
Edinburgh Uni bosses spent more than £110,000 on travel last year
During this time period, bosses spoke publicly about the need to slash as much as £140 million, including £90m in staff costs, from the…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
While hundreds of staff have left University of Edinburgh amid £140m of budget cuts, senior managers spent £111,736 on travel and accommodation over the same period.
These are not abstract numbers. They represent real jobs, real students, and real priorities.
These are not abstract numbers. They represent real jobs, real students, and real priorities.
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How does it feel when your employer doesn't seem to be bothered about the risks to staff morale and retention caused by plans to steal pay and pensions? @northumbriauni.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
How does it feel when your employer doesn't seem to be bothered about the risks to staff morale and retention caused by plans to steal pay and pensions? @northumbriauni.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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“You can’t cut one in ten staff without damaging students and teaching.”
85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus.
Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...
85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus.
Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...
University of Essex staff vote for strike action in fight against job cuts
Staff at the University of Essex have voted to take industrial action in a dispute over plans axe 400 jobs, the University and College Union announced today
www.ucu.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM
“You can’t cut one in ten staff without damaging students and teaching.”
85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus.
Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...
85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus.
Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...
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Dreadful stuff from the Uni of Sheffield. Please do support the @sheffielducu.bsky.social crowdfunder if you can afford to do so.
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Dreadful stuff from the Uni of Sheffield. Please do support the @sheffielducu.bsky.social crowdfunder if you can afford to do so.
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Leicester UCU is back on the pickets on Thursday, 11-2pm:
Join us at 1.30 near the library for a stellar teach-out on solidarity!
Join us at 1.30 near the library for a stellar teach-out on solidarity!
January 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Leicester UCU is back on the pickets on Thursday, 11-2pm:
Join us at 1.30 near the library for a stellar teach-out on solidarity!
Join us at 1.30 near the library for a stellar teach-out on solidarity!
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There must be a handbook that senior management work from on this, because it’s exactly the same as the UEA experience & now colleagues at Essex. Solidarity with everyone going through this absolute avoidable horror
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
There must be a handbook that senior management work from on this, because it’s exactly the same as the UEA experience & now colleagues at Essex. Solidarity with everyone going through this absolute avoidable horror
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The average salary among Russell Group leaders increased above £350,000 last year, despite these universities losing almost 7,000 staff members due to cost-cutting. Patrick Jack crunches the numbers #highered #academicsky
https://ow.ly/gJK850XU77K
https://ow.ly/gJK850XU77K
January 12, 2026 at 7:15 AM
The average salary among Russell Group leaders increased above £350,000 last year, despite these universities losing almost 7,000 staff members due to cost-cutting. Patrick Jack crunches the numbers #highered #academicsky
https://ow.ly/gJK850XU77K
https://ow.ly/gJK850XU77K
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I'd also like to see figures on money spaffed on management consultants whilst universities slash budgets that support staff to actually deliver research and teaching.
January 15, 2026 at 8:42 AM
I'd also like to see figures on money spaffed on management consultants whilst universities slash budgets that support staff to actually deliver research and teaching.
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Sir Nishan?
Many of our members are shocked our VC is to be knighted during a grueling redundancy programme, with more consultations announced today!
Only two months ago, 1,022 university members participated in a confidence vote and overwhelmingly voted ‘no confidence’ in him.
Many of our members are shocked our VC is to be knighted during a grueling redundancy programme, with more consultations announced today!
Only two months ago, 1,022 university members participated in a confidence vote and overwhelmingly voted ‘no confidence’ in him.
January 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Sir Nishan?
Many of our members are shocked our VC is to be knighted during a grueling redundancy programme, with more consultations announced today!
Only two months ago, 1,022 university members participated in a confidence vote and overwhelmingly voted ‘no confidence’ in him.
Many of our members are shocked our VC is to be knighted during a grueling redundancy programme, with more consultations announced today!
Only two months ago, 1,022 university members participated in a confidence vote and overwhelmingly voted ‘no confidence’ in him.
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'More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning them from recruitment fairs and refusing to advertise roles in the industry, according to the latest higher education league table.'
Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry
Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
'More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning them from recruitment fairs and refusing to advertise roles in the industry, according to the latest higher education league table.'
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Latest monthly visa application figures are out.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Latest monthly visa application figures are out.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
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A Senate inquiry in Australia has found that corporatised universities have 'betrayed' students and staff. Good stuff.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
'Dirty secret' of higher education revealed as senate inquiry calls on universities to change
The final report into governance has called for state and Commonwealth legislation to refocus universities on teaching and research.
www.abc.net.au
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A Senate inquiry in Australia has found that corporatised universities have 'betrayed' students and staff. Good stuff.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
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Some petitions to sign to protest Nottingham’s cuts! #AcademicSky
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Some petitions to sign to protest Nottingham’s cuts! #AcademicSky
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
Save Modern Languages - c.org/D5v6qstzyW
Save Agriculture - c.org/bgxhcKVHYk
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Although I am inevitably caught up in the likely dire implications for my department (Music), it isn’t just us in the Faculty of Arts or in the university under threat.
Do consider signing this petition in support of colleagues teaching Theology!
c.org/6kntRm2JVh
Do consider signing this petition in support of colleagues teaching Theology!
c.org/6kntRm2JVh
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Theology Undergraduate courses at the University of Nottingham
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Although I am inevitably caught up in the likely dire implications for my department (Music), it isn’t just us in the Faculty of Arts or in the university under threat.
Do consider signing this petition in support of colleagues teaching Theology!
c.org/6kntRm2JVh
Do consider signing this petition in support of colleagues teaching Theology!
c.org/6kntRm2JVh
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Save Nursing - c.org/HVr7Rfrhsz
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Save Nursing - c.org/HVr7Rfrhsz
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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'While stating that a crackdown on the higher education sector could have a negative impact for the country at large, Centre for Cities said the impact would be more heavily felt in cities including Leicester, Plymouth, Hull and Stoke-on-Trent.' 1/2
Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities, thinktank warns
University sector, which is reliant on overseas students for a quarter of income, key to economic activity in cities like Leicester and Hull
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
'While stating that a crackdown on the higher education sector could have a negative impact for the country at large, Centre for Cities said the impact would be more heavily felt in cities including Leicester, Plymouth, Hull and Stoke-on-Trent.' 1/2
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Once again, the prestigious universities have pillaged the market, to their own destruction as a brand and the detriment to the students they are recruiting but can't teach properly. All the while laying financial waste to the post-1992s that can.
When is government going to step in and fix this?
When is government going to step in and fix this?
August 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Once again, the prestigious universities have pillaged the market, to their own destruction as a brand and the detriment to the students they are recruiting but can't teach properly. All the while laying financial waste to the post-1992s that can.
When is government going to step in and fix this?
When is government going to step in and fix this?
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Not tue students and not the universities that have spent decades building a particular brand.
Meanwhile, the post-1992s *specialise* in taking often disadvantaged students and coverting them into high class graduates. That is the model. The funding regime has destroyed this to the detriment of all
Meanwhile, the post-1992s *specialise* in taking often disadvantaged students and coverting them into high class graduates. That is the model. The funding regime has destroyed this to the detriment of all
August 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not tue students and not the universities that have spent decades building a particular brand.
Meanwhile, the post-1992s *specialise* in taking often disadvantaged students and coverting them into high class graduates. That is the model. The funding regime has destroyed this to the detriment of all
Meanwhile, the post-1992s *specialise* in taking often disadvantaged students and coverting them into high class graduates. That is the model. The funding regime has destroyed this to the detriment of all
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To be fair, UKHEIs have made some truly terrible decisions, but ultimately the fault lies with the last government and this one for not fixing a broken funding model. The result will be more job losses at post-1992s, destroyed working conditions elsewhere and poor student outcomes.
August 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
To be fair, UKHEIs have made some truly terrible decisions, but ultimately the fault lies with the last government and this one for not fixing a broken funding model. The result will be more job losses at post-1992s, destroyed working conditions elsewhere and poor student outcomes.
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Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
www.change.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
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Great support from @staffsucu.bsky.social Aidan at our @ucu.org.uk lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors today. Thank you Staffs for your ongoing support including your donation to our fighting fund!
#SaveBCU
#SaveBCU
July 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Great support from @staffsucu.bsky.social Aidan at our @ucu.org.uk lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors today. Thank you Staffs for your ongoing support including your donation to our fighting fund!
#SaveBCU
#SaveBCU