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The University of Glasgow, along with the majority of universities in the UK, has been in a dispute with the UCU over pay, equalities, working conditions, and pensions. For the duration of the dispute, now more than three years, UoG,…

An account by a university teacher on a precarious contract about the struggles organising in High Education, the limits of larger business unions and the role of the IWW.

Universities across the UK, including our own University of Glasgow, have been demonstrating their social conscience, by issuing statements condemning the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and declaring support for the Ukrainian people. This anti-war rhetoric and sympathy with those…

Support striking university workers and build worker-student solidarity! Education workers with the University and College Union (UCU) are preparing for another battle around pensions, casualization, pay, and discrimination. This is the third time workers mobilise on these issues which continue…

Worker power needed to curb the long-term trends of de-skilling and degradation of work   Background We recently described the University of Exeter’s brazen attempt to retain all pre-recorded material (e.g. lecture recordings) in perpetuity. Such a move would cripple…

Statement about the University of Exeter’s proposed new policy on online learning material   What’s happening Educators have been stretched to breaking point during the pandemic. They were forced to rapidly adapt to online teaching with little advance notice due to…

The IWW Education Workers’ Industrial Union would like to invite you to its first Education Workers’ Summit this August the 14th and 15th from 10:00am to 5:15pm (London time) on both days. The event will be held online, and you…

Students are in open rebellion against an exploitative system   Continuing an escalation of direct actions, student rent strikers are currently occupying buildings across four university campuses in the north of England: University of Manchester, Sheffield Hallam, University of Sheffield…

In this thoughtful and thought-provoking article, Paul Breen lays out some potential ways forward for the ELT industry post-COVID. Most poignantly, he thinks now might be the time to start seriously considering nationalising the industry and what that could mean…