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The Consultation: HEC Recommends, Members Decide

At its meeting on 30 March, HEC passed motions tabled by UCU Commons members (those numbered 2 and 3 in this blog) and began a process of consulting UCU members as a whole on the proposed interim resolutions in both the pay and conditions dispute with UCEA and the USS dispute with UUK (with separate…

Gender-Based Violence: A Call to Action for FE and HE

Content note: this blog post refers to gender-based violence and related issues throughout. The contact details of some organisations that support people who have experience of gender-based violence are listed at the foot of this post. While standing for NEC on a platform of anti-gender based violence (GBV) it was always my intention to write…

Moving On: the 17 March HEC Decision and Next Steps

In this blog, as members of UCU Commons on the Higher Education Committee (HEC), our priorities are to outline our position on the questions that were before HEC on 17 March and to suggest some ways forward. But we also understand that there is significant demand for a clear and measured account of what has…

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