UCU Commons takes its name from what we have in common; our values, our aims, our union, and our methods, and from our collective commitment to fight for the common good in education and in the production of knowledge.

What we all have in common, from knowledge production to teaching provision, from secure and dignified working conditions to our stake in education communities, is being eroded and enclosed by marketisation and managerialism. We organise not simply to resist these forces, but also to articulate our vision of education as accessible to all, and to defend and promote that vision by strengthening our University and College Union (UCU).

We are the commons, the third estate, and we want to pull down the hedges that enclose education.

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