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Lecturers

May 2024

  • Back view of man presenting to students at a lecture theatre

    ‘I see little point’: UK university students on why attendance has plummeted

    About half the students who got in touch skip lectures, with many ‘disappointed’ with the experience and others forced to prioritise paid work

September 2023

  • Thousands of strikers and their supporters marching  in London in November last year.

    University staff union backs away from UK-wide strikes as support wanes

    Majority of campus branches refuse to take part in action scheduled for 25-29 September

August 2023

  • A law department lecture underway at Aberystwyth university

    The Guardian view on England’s universities: a summer of campus discontent

    Editorial: Institutions, academics and students are being ill-served by a failing marketised model of higher education

July 2023

  • Students protest amid the UCU's marking boycott Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

    Today in Focus
    The class of 2023: the UK’s unluckiest students

  • University Staff Strike, London, UK - 25 Nov 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock (10484555c) A picket line outside the Coultauld Institute of Art, part of the University of London, as university lecturers and support staff of the UCU begin an 8-day strike over pensions and pay. University Staff Strike, London, UK - 25 Nov 2019

    Lecturers don’t want a marking boycott, either. But we must fight those wrecking UK universities

    Lorna Finlayson

March 2023

  • Members of the UCU on the picket line at London College of Communication

    UK university staff make breakthrough in strike dispute with employers

    Unions and UCEA declare agreement ‘on terms of reference for detailed negotiations’ on pay and conditions

February 2023

  • Kojo Koram

    It’s not ‘wokery’ or snowflakes strangling free expression in universities – it’s the Conservative party

    Kojo Koram
  • Teachers and supporters march through Bristol

    Strikers unite across England: ‘Our disputes may be separate but we have one aim’

November 2022

  • UCU general secretary Jo Grady, centre, on the picket lines in Manchester last week.

    Universities condemned over threat to dock all pay of striking staff

  • Larry Rudling in Orkney

    Other lives
    Larry Rudling obituary

October 2022

  • Teaching staff and students at Falmouth University in a three-day strike last week

    UK university staff vote for strike action over pay, conditions and pensions

    Union calls on vice-chancellors to negotiate to prevent higher education being brought to ‘complete standstill’

September 2022

  • Teacher and students in classroom during lesson.

    The Guardian view on college strikes: a 2.5% pay rise isn’t enough

    Editorial: Cancelled lessons are an unhappy prospect, but further education teachers have had a raw deal for years

May 2022

  • Student graduation

    Black students frustrated at lack of action on university racism, MPs told

    Academics and student leaders tell committee black students and staff face ‘ingrained institutional racism’

February 2022

  • Female graduates at a ceremony

    UK universities ‘too slow’ to address staff-student sexual relationships

  • King’s College chapel, Cambridge University.

    Cambridge lecturers accuse university of ‘explosive workloads’

December 2021

  • Lecturers picket University College London, 1 December

    A decade of marketisation has left lecturers with no choice but to strike

    Jacob Mukherjee
    The shake-up of universities has led to lower pensions, job insecurity and cuts to courses, says Goldsmiths lecturer Jacob Mukherjee

November 2021

  • UCU armband on a picket's arm

    UK universities and colleges face three days of strikes in December

    Staff at 58 institutions voted to strike over pay and conditions and to stop cuts to pensions

October 2021

  • The University of Sussex has become embroiled in a contentious national debate after a protest calling for lecturer Kathleen stock to be sacked.

    Campus in the spotlight: how Sussex became focus of row over trans rights

  • Kathleen Stock says she has been targeted by activists for her views on gender identification.

    Professor says career ‘effectively ended’ by union’s transphobia claims

September 2021

  • UCU picket armband

    UK university staff to vote on strike action in coming academic year

    Exclusive: battle over steep cuts to pension benefits reignites just as campuses recover from Covid
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