Higher education unions

Some in union adamant that move is only way of fighting university cuts despite legal advice warning of risks of potential action

Exams going unmarked and temporary lecturers causing friction 130 days into industrial action but Joanna Newman believes she can end crisis loop at famed arts institution

Union threatens potential strikes, saying scale of cuts will inevitably lead to job losses

University staff are demanding a new pay deal and stronger protections on working conditions after a previous government agreement expired in June

UCU calls on institutions to rethink restructuring plans as industrial action affects large swathes of sector

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

Employers’ body instructs members to implement final pay offer as further negotiations fail to resolve impasse with unions

UK students being told that modules are cancelled and recommended options outside their courses, union reports

Learners left unable to graduate or progress by ‘last resort’ industrial action

Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say

UCU and Unison warn changes to trade union agreements could lead to unions being derecognised

Impacted staff were all copied into a group email, prompting outrage

Employer body says it is unable to instruct institutions to increase staff pay until unions decide whether to enter dispute

Vice-chancellor insists university must make further savings because of ongoing financial pressures

University closes programmes just as applicants find out if they have gained a place, with students told to transfer to other courses or study 80 miles away

With industrial action threatening graduations, parents of affected students urge parties to reach agreement

Science and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’

Union warns move will create ‘two-tier’ workforce and save university only £36k

Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop

University claims its changes will protect academic jobs and strengthen teaching but striking staff say reforms pose an ‘existential’ threat

With two universities set to become one entity next month, unions say there are still too many unknowns about how the new institution will operate

Union members to stage prolonged walkout after university announced it is looking to cut 200 more jobs

Students’ resits and graduations hit by union action over planned restructure

National pay award expected to be postponed, while some university employees question decision to opt out of collective bargaining

Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider

Plans to employ teaching-focused academics via subsidiary firm should worry whole sector, say UCU representatives

Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

University defends decision to shutter provision after more than a century because of declining recruitment

Interim leader drops plans to lose 150 jobs amid reports that announcement of process ‘blindsided’ university’s council

Edinburgh extends pay deductions to those who refuse to cover for colleagues taking part in industrial action

Members at union’s congress debate whether to hold another national ballot despite failure to reach threshold last year

Union tells staff to walk out after academics taking part in boycott told they will lose full pay

UCU leader tells annual congress that sector faces threats like never before and issues cannot be fixed under current model

Planned boycott at Nottingham could disrupt some students’ ability to graduate, while staff at London South Bank University are also set to vote on industrial action

Government expected to allow employer contribution rates to come down next year after lobbying by post-92 institutions

University says final decision yet to be made after document outlining new redundancy scheme leaked to press

University apologises after some staff wrongly told they were at risk of redundancy but insists overall process has been ‘fair’

ANU’s ‘academic performance remains strong’, university insists, amid call for governing body spill over overstated financial crisis

Union opposes new savings target and questions plans for online courses

Pretending research environments could be measured by metrics or policies ignored how scholarship actually relies on peer-to-peer relations unique to academic cultures, say Martin Holbraad, Dan Nightingale and Aeron O’Connor

Cleaners, security guards and technicians to walk out after unions reject below-inflation pay rise

Six of seven complaints made against UCU thrown out by Certification Officer, with any breach of rules found not to have swayed final result

More money, control over workloads and protection from AI obliteration also feature in union branch’s log of claims

University increases size of payout and extends deadline as it insists more staff will take up offer to move pensions after union describes scheme as ‘abject failure’

Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

Employers say claim would be ‘extremely challenging’ in time of financial hardship, as annual pay talks get under way

Closure of low-enrolment courses, higher staff-student ratios and departmental mergers among measures being considered by institutions

Union leader denies all allegations of wrongdoing at watchdog hearing, as former campaign rivals look to overturn election result

Staff at Strathclyde and Durham vote to walk out in disputes over job losses and workloads, while Northumbria to be hit with disruption in row over pensions

Further walkouts planned as part of internal row that has seen six weeks of disruption in past year alone

Union wins industrial action ballot over move to freeze pay for those who refuse Teachers’ Pension Scheme switch

University claims staff are in breach of contract for failing to reorganise lectures lost during recent industrial action

Union leader says Southend campus closure will ‘take the heart out of the town’

New Ucea chair warns ‘much is at stake’ if unions and employers don’t collaborate to tackle ‘negative’ sector image, as he promises action on the ‘employee experience’

Union says reduction in staff numbers has led to increased pressure but university warns potential industrial action lacks justification

Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde threatened with industrial action as Scottish government’s review of higher education funding begins

Investigation by Health and Safety Executive found institution ‘does not have appropriate arrangements in place’ to manage burnout among staff

University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers

UK’s biggest academic union unable to pursue national industrial action over pay and job cuts after it fails to meet minimum turnout threshold