UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has written to all MPs inviting them to watch our ‘day in the life’ video, which which was premiered at our annual Congress at the end of May, and t0 join the Make Education Count network.

Youngsters from West Yorkshire, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bristol who are not in education, employment or training (known as NEETs) will be quizzing politicians on 24 February about their policies for education. The youngsters will travel to Westminster to take part in a question and answer session with Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative politicians. The event has [...]

UCU’s event in the Long Gallery at Stormont on 20 January, highlighted the continuing stark inequalities in educational attainment and opportunities depending where you live in Northern Ireland. UCU produced 18 constituency profiles, each containing forty statistics regarding further and higher education in Northern Ireland. The profiles – produced as a 24 page booklet – [...]

UCU Scotland will hold a lobby outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday (27 January) as part of UCU’s ‘Defend jobs, defend education’ campaign. The lobby will urge MSPs to oppose cuts particularly in the teacher education budget and will take place from 1pm. UCU members will highlight the problems a proposed funding cut for teacher [...]

UCU will launch its education manifesto on Tuesday 26 January at a lobby event in parliament to set out its key issues in all areas of post-16 education. The manifesto is part of the union’s campaign to get parliamentary candidates to clearly state their position on education to allow the public to make an informed [...]

On Tuesday 26 January UCU will be holding a lobby of parliament to let MPs know what is happening in further and higher education and to make sure the voices of UCU members are heard in the ‘corridors of power’ in the run up to the general election. As well as highlighting our industrial agenda, [...]

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