Job cuts fuel staff discontent at Lincoln and Northumbria
UCU declares ‘no confidence’ in Lincoln management while redundancy plans prompt fresh dispute in north-east.
City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece
The vocational training body City & Guilds has guaranteed that plans for mass compulsory redundancies and the offshoring of hundreds of UK jobs to Greece will no longer go ahead.
Union stands down after City & Guilds offshoring assurances
Union officials have called off a workforce redundancy dispute with City & Guilds bosses that threatened to boil over into legal and industrial action.
Scottish education minister condemns 190 more job cuts at Dundee
University says further savings needed to ‘survive’ but Màiri McAllan urges pause to ‘interrogate the evidence’.
Further 190 jobs to be cut at Dundee University in bid to save £20m
Dundee University has announced that a further 190 jobs will be cut as it continues to struggle with a financial crisis.
NEU strike fund falls as teacher pay decision looms
Industrial action ballots have jumped by nearly two-thirds since 2023, the union’s latest accounts show, as redundancy disputes rise.
Dundee University approves £20m cuts plan amid jobs losses
Dundee University has approved a recovery plan requiring around £20m in further annual savings, raising renewed fears of job losses after hundreds of posts have already gone or been earmarked for redundancy.
Job cuts risk at university departments
Jobs are at risk at the University of Sheffield as management conducts a review of three departments.
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'Indefinite' strike by Goldsmiths staff over cuts
Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London, are taking "indefinite" strike action in a row over potential cuts and job losses.
City & Guilds threatened with legal action over ‘disgraceful’ staff cuts plan
A union is threatening awarding giant City & Guilds with “legal and industrial action” over its workforce redundancy plans.
City & Guilds faces legal and industrial action over plans to cut hundreds of jobs
City & Guilds is facing potential legal and industrial action over claims it has been “dishonest” over plans to shed about 400 UK staff.
‘Careers are going up in flames’: inside Nottingham’s cuts crisis
With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider failures.
Job cuts mount across UK universities amid financial strain
Redundancies continue to sweep the UK higher education sector as mounting financial pressures force universities to implement cost-cutting measures.
Glasgow Caledonian University begin strike over job cuts
Strike action begins at Glasgow Caledonian University on Wednesday, as staff walk out in a dispute over job cuts and possible compulsory redundancies.
Hundreds of Edinburgh University staff paid to leave in £140m cuts bid
Almost 500 people have taken voluntary severance at Edinburgh University since managers first announced cost-cutting plans in August 2024.
Aberdeen could cut 111 jobs as it seeks £10 million in savings
‘Decisive action’ is needed to address structural deficit despite recent cost-saving measures, says principal.