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Report from NEC, 14th March 2025
By UCU Commons NEC members
Key takeaways:
* President remains steadfast on dealing with bad behaviour
* NEC approves subs and budget to Congress
* Usual bad faith questioning and undermining of the General Secretary
A calendared meeting of the National Executive Committee, which deals with cross-sectoral business and is composed of some
HEC Report, Friday 7th March 2025
by UCU Commons NEC members
A calendared meeting of HEC took place on Friday 7 March. The purpose of this meeting was partly to approve motions to go to the Higher Education Sector Conference, which takes place every year on the second day of UCU’s annual congress (at the
Report of Special HEC, 19th February 2025
By UCU Commons HEC members
This was convened by a majority of HEC members requesting a meeting to: ‘Discuss matters and make decisions arising from the HEC meeting of 12 December 2024’. UCU Commons members on HEC were not part of this call; in fact, we had a HEC timetabled
Report of Special HEC, 31st January 2025
By UCU Commons HEC members
This was convened to discuss the pay claim for 2025–26 (i.e. not last year’s pay claim, which was the reason for calling industrial action in December, so any discussions of that decision were necessarily off the table, as special HECs must be
A Decade of Crisis
A piece by Dr Dave Hitchcock for History Workshop
The NEC Election Results
Dear subscribers,
Now that the NEC election results are available, we thought we’d share our initial analysis and reflections.
First of all, we want to say again how proud we are of our campaign, our slate and our team. It takes guts for people to put themselves out there,
A Huge Thank You
Dear subscribers,
As of 5pm today, Monday 3rd March, the ballot period for the 2025 UCU NEC and officer elections will end, and the ballots will go to Civica, the independent scrutineer, to be counted. Results will be made available by 5pm this Thursday 6th March.
Elections are always a
Annual Meeting of Staff on Casualised Contracts: A Report
By Ben Pope
Highly visible consequences of the structural funding crises in UK tertiary education are omnipresent at the moment, and the damage done to individuals and communities by this unfolding disaster will be with us for much longer. On Saturday 22 February, one of the regular, scheduled responses to
Introducing Bijan Parsia!
Dear subscribers,
Today, we’re introducing Bijan Parsia (he/they) from the University of Manchester, who is running for a second term as Disabled Members’ rep from HE. In this mailout, Bijan reflects on the current crisis, as well as UCU’s ongoing internal splits over strategy.
We’ve just