@uculondonoffice.bsky.social
London Regional Office of the University and College Union. Trade Union for further, adult, prison and higher education workers.
Education is a public good.
Education is a public good.
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With only a few hours left to vote, our regional officials – Mary Senior, Julie Kelley, Lawson Armstrong and Gareth Lloyd are all saying the same thing: get the vote out.
✅ Have you voted?
✅ Have you checked your colleagues have?
Let’s do this together.
✅ Have you voted?
✅ Have you checked your colleagues have?
Let’s do this together.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
With only a few hours left to vote, our regional officials – Mary Senior, Julie Kelley, Lawson Armstrong and Gareth Lloyd are all saying the same thing: get the vote out.
✅ Have you voted?
✅ Have you checked your colleagues have?
Let’s do this together.
✅ Have you voted?
✅ Have you checked your colleagues have?
Let’s do this together.
UCU - Labour "echoing Reform" with "regressive levy" on international students, says UCU www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
Labour "echoing Reform" with "regressive levy" on international students, says UCU
www.ucu.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
UCU - Labour "echoing Reform" with "regressive levy" on international students, says UCU www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
Solidarity! @ucuimperial.bsky.social & UNISON
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Solidarity! @ucuimperial.bsky.social & UNISON
Solidarity @imperialucu.bsky.social & UNISON
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Solidarity @imperialucu.bsky.social & UNISON
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TODAY IS THE LAST SAFE DAY TO POST YOUR BALLOT!
‼️📮This is your reminder that tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) is the last day to safely return your postal ballot in the national dispute. 🧵Here’s why this dispute matters for us at Goldsmiths:
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
TODAY IS THE LAST SAFE DAY TO POST YOUR BALLOT!
Solidarity @ucuimperial.bsky.social
🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
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UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Solidarity @ucuimperial.bsky.social
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🚨🚨 Calling on all KCL UCU members: TODAY is the last ⭐️safe day⭐️ to post your ballots for both national and local disputes! VOTE today, VOTE yes and put them in the POST!! 📦 📦 ➡️ ALSO if your ballot papers arrive later than today please contact us as we can deliver in person on Friday afternoon 💫💫
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🚨🚨 Calling on all KCL UCU members: TODAY is the last ⭐️safe day⭐️ to post your ballots for both national and local disputes! VOTE today, VOTE yes and put them in the POST!! 📦 📦 ➡️ ALSO if your ballot papers arrive later than today please contact us as we can deliver in person on Friday afternoon 💫💫
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POST IT POST IT POST IT POST IT
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
POST IT POST IT POST IT POST IT
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Now there's a thought....
Now there's a thought....
General Strike 100
National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.
All the details here: generalstrike100.com #GeneralStrike100
National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.
All the details here: generalstrike100.com #GeneralStrike100
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Now there's a thought....
Now there's a thought....
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‼️📮This is your reminder that tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) is the last day to safely return your postal ballot in the national dispute. 🧵Here’s why this dispute matters for us at Goldsmiths:
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
‼️📮This is your reminder that tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) is the last day to safely return your postal ballot in the national dispute. 🧵Here’s why this dispute matters for us at Goldsmiths:
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Paul Nowak is with us. @tuc.org.uk
We can do this, for a stronger, fairer future for our universities.
Use your vote. Vote yes.
We can do this, for a stronger, fairer future for our universities.
Use your vote. Vote yes.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Paul Nowak is with us. @tuc.org.uk
We can do this, for a stronger, fairer future for our universities.
Use your vote. Vote yes.
We can do this, for a stronger, fairer future for our universities.
Use your vote. Vote yes.
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The last safe day to vote is Wednesday 26 November.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The last safe day to vote is Wednesday 26 November.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts
Imperial College London staff will down tools tomorrow in a fight for a fair pay award, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today
www.ucu.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
UCU - 4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts
Imperial College London staff will down tools tomorrow in a fight for a fair pay award, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today
www.ucu.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
UCU - 4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
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We are in our final week of the national ballot! Wednesday 26 Nov is the last safe date to post the ballot and the ballot closes on Friday 28th November! Make sure you have had your say!
#wearetheuniversity
#wearetheuniversity
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We are in our final week of the national ballot! Wednesday 26 Nov is the last safe date to post the ballot and the ballot closes on Friday 28th November! Make sure you have had your say!
#wearetheuniversity
#wearetheuniversity
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Last night Suzi from FE told us how they won their ballot - personal contact.
In the final week they:
• organised every day
• tracked turnout daily
• went door-to-door in departments
• messaged every member
• kept energy high in every building
That is how we win. Keep going, everyone!
In the final week they:
• organised every day
• tracked turnout daily
• went door-to-door in departments
• messaged every member
• kept energy high in every building
That is how we win. Keep going, everyone!
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Last night Suzi from FE told us how they won their ballot - personal contact.
In the final week they:
• organised every day
• tracked turnout daily
• went door-to-door in departments
• messaged every member
• kept energy high in every building
That is how we win. Keep going, everyone!
In the final week they:
• organised every day
• tracked turnout daily
• went door-to-door in departments
• messaged every member
• kept energy high in every building
That is how we win. Keep going, everyone!
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Only 5 days left.
Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.
Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.
Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Only 5 days left.
Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.
Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.
Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.
#WeAreTheUniversity
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Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Can't find your ballot? Get another.
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
yoursay.ucu.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Can't find your ballot? Get another.
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
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Stipends for PhD students in London need to increase by at least £2,500 to prevent doctoral study becoming “accessible only to the most privileged”, students’ unions have urged
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/increase-london-phd-allowance-ps2500-ukri-urged
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/increase-london-phd-allowance-ps2500-ukri-urged
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Stipends for PhD students in London need to increase by at least £2,500 to prevent doctoral study becoming “accessible only to the most privileged”, students’ unions have urged
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/increase-london-phd-allowance-ps2500-ukri-urged
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/increase-london-phd-allowance-ps2500-ukri-urged
Levy criticism ‘makes me want to run screaming’, says Smith student-ui.prd.timeshighereducation.com/news/levy-cr...
Levy criticism ‘makes me want to run screaming’, says Smith
Skills minister says convincing the Treasury of the importance of maintenance grants was difficult to get over the line
student-ui.prd.timeshighereducation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Levy criticism ‘makes me want to run screaming’, says Smith student-ui.prd.timeshighereducation.com/news/levy-cr...
Global education ‘not aligned with real needs’ – OECD chief www.timeshighereducation.com/news/global-...
Global education ‘not aligned with real needs’ – OECD chief
Students struggling to find good jobs while employers say they cannot address skills shortages, Andreas Schleicher highlights
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Global education ‘not aligned with real needs’ – OECD chief www.timeshighereducation.com/news/global-...
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⌛️🗳️REMINDER that the deadline for requesting a replacement ballot is this Sunday 23 NOVEMBER 2025! yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
yoursay.ucu.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
⌛️🗳️REMINDER that the deadline for requesting a replacement ballot is this Sunday 23 NOVEMBER 2025! yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
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This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...