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Post COVID, supporting students with complaints and appeals in the wake of changes to their programme; student finances, academic issues, welfare support, lobbying in universities […]

Five Universities in the South East taking strike action on 2 and 3 October 2023.

Support staff at Leeds Trinity University and the University of Leeds are to stage coordinated strike action, along with 18 other universities in England and Scotland, for at least two days in their ongoing dispute about pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). More than 5,000 staff belonging to the union from the 20 universities could take […]

Thursday 17 August saw day 2 of the strike by professional services staff at the University of Sussex. Here’s what happened.

On 16 August 2023, professional services staff from the University of Sussex walked out for 48 hours in a dispute over pay. Here’s a round-up from day 1 on the picket lines

Industrial action will take place during ‘clearing week’, which will disrupt the process of filling courses with vacant spots, the union says.

The results are in for the higher education strike ballot that ran from 31 May to 31 July – and 4 higher education institutions in the South West have met the threshold for action.

Support staff at the University of Bedfordshire have won an extra five days’ paid holiday, says UNISON today. It follows a long campaign by the union to highlight what is says is the unfair difference in annual leave entitlement between support staff, who work in professional services, and academics. From September, full-time professional services staff […]

“Our members, who include cleaners, caterers, domestic staff, security staff, library staff and administrators, are the bedrock of the higher education […]

"Many universities have already made local agreements to resolve the dispute, including making changes to working hours or awarding bonuses. Winchester could do the same, but has so far chosen not to […]