Joseph Caddick lets loose on Vice Chancellor Chris Day...
Ella McCaffrey on the gender pay gap, and why our lecturers refused to teach...
Lilla Marshall reports on the latest news surrounding Newcastle University and COVID-19......
Charlotte Boulton shares her thoughts on the latest strike action controversy on campus...
UCU members have voted to bring months of industrial action and uncertainty to a close after voting to accept the terms set out by the UUK, as they continue to propose pension scheme changes. Having c...
Planned strike action scheduled to take place in the two weeks following the Easter break will not go ahead. In an e-mail circulated to all students, Vice Chancellor Professor Chris Day announced that...
University and College Union’s (UCU) national High Education Committee (HEC) met on Thursday 9th March to outline decisions regarding the potential next steps of the lecturers’ pensions strike. Th...
If you turned up to a 9am last Thursday and your lecturer didn’t do the same, you may have wondered what was going on. If you rocked up to an 11am, and the same thing happened, you probably weren’...
Universities threatening big pay deductions risk prolonging strikes. After 5 days of strike action, staff at 61 Universities have returned to work while taking actions short of a strike, otherwise kno...
At the launch of a new regulator for higher education in England, the Office for Students, universities minister Sam Gyimah said students should receive compensation for missed lectures and classes du...
Talks restart on Monday 5th March to bring an end to the lecturers' strike...
Steven Ross reports on the staff and students that took to the picket lines in support of the UCU industrial action...
Professor Chris Day, the Vice-Chancellor and President of Newcastle University, has expressed support for staff striking in protest at changes to their pensions. Staff at 64 universities across the UK...
