Students back striking staff as regulator highlights disruption
Undergraduates and postgraduates express sympathy for lecturers who have also struggled with shift online during pandemic
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Unison members vote to strike at 22 UK universities
Ballot result comes days before UCU plans to poll its members on whether to take action over below inflation pay rises
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UCU: Zahawi must be ‘voice for students’ against loan costs hike
Union urges education secretary to intervene on student loan changes and to press university bosses into talking on disputes
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UCU says staff ‘left with no other option’ as strike ballots open
UCU leader Jo Grady claims action is needed as ‘staff at breaking point’ but employers say latest 1.5 per cent pay offer is ‘fair and meaningful’
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Share price crash cut pension fund's value by 24 per cent in eight months
USS suffered in 2008 but board refuses to divulge current figure. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Changes in future accrual rates may shrink public-sector pensions
The government has yet to take "the crucial step" in setting the value of public-sector pensions covering up to 200,000 staff in former polytechnics, according to an academic who advised a government...
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Turnout hampers strike plans in UK university pay dispute
Combined with results of pensions ballot, union has mandate for walkouts at?less than four in?10 institutions polled
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V-cs tread tightrope with students and ministers as strikes loom
Walkouts expected as government decides on English reforms in wake of Covid disruption
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Breaking strike with recorded lectures ‘may be against the law’
Intellectual property rights are likely to rest with lecturers despite university ownership claims, say legal experts
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The week in higher education – 3?February 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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UCU postpones reballots, but has strike fatigue set in already?
Some members increasingly wary after 22 days of walkouts already this year, but many remain determined to win concessions from employers on pay and pensions
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UCU faces member backlash over compulsory ‘fighting fund’ levy
Money to be taken automatically from members’ bank accounts to support UK union’s strike fund
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Birmingham says picket lines on campus are ‘trespassing’
UCU says some universities are using ‘highly questionable tactics’ as strikes are set to enter their second week
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‘Stand-off’ as both sides dig in for UK sector strikes
Union and employers?refuse to make further concessions as 14 days of industrial action continue at 74 universities
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Employers refuse to back down on eve of UK university strikes
Universities decline to make fresh offers on pay and pensions as union prepares for second round of industrial action