@drjogrady.bsky.social
General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) https://bsky.app/profile/ucu.org.uk | she/her | unrepentant dyslexic
Christmas has arrived at UCU βοΈ
24.11.2025 21:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Every late ballot counts! You have until Wednesday to post them.
24.11.2025 21:42 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The last safe day to vote is Wednesday 26 November.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you havenβt voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if theyβve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
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03.11.2025 16:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Casualisation. Redundancies. Course closures. Attacks on our terms and conditions. Enough is enough.
Our LSE branch chair explains why heβs voting YES, why are you voting yes? πͺ
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYes
Show us your ballots! Bright and early, we love to see it!
03.11.2025 10:03 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0At a time when our society sees so much division, we need our colleges more than ever.
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
National get the vote out
π£ National Get The Vote Out LIVE!
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK πͺ
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted π³οΈ
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
Iβve said it before and Iβll say it again, the biggest threat to academic freedom is the marketisation of higher education.
The accusation here could not be more serious: that Hallam traded research on human rights violations in China, for access to the Chinese student market.
t.co/j2rTxAfIw6
Β£140m cuts. 1,800 jobs at risk.
Edinburgh staff are voting again.
@drjogrady.bsky.social: βThe quickest way to force their hand is a resounding YES vote.
We stand with our members at Edinburgh as they ballot to defend jobs, students, and education. β
We are preparing to ballot our England FE members
25.09.2025 16:16 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Following pressure, Microsoft has blocked Israelβs access to tech which allowed the mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. This is the first time a major US tech company has sanctioned Israel for violating Palestinian rights
Incredible work from @972mag.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
You can read in more detail the research we commissioned from Howard Stevenson et al on this - βChanging lives and transforming communities: harnessing the power of post-compulsory educationβ - here:
www.ucu.org.uk/media/14604/...
UCUβs message to Labour has been consistent.
If you want to turn the tide on years of austerity, you must invest in the college, higher and adult education sectors.
Any βfightbackβ that does not include genuine investment and support for education to play its crucial role will be superficial.
Solidarity with everyone at Nottingham. The whole union is behind you.
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23.09.2025 10:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If we believe in free speech, regardless of how you feel about Kirk's message, his assassination should be unequivocally condemned.
It is very concerning to observe how pretty much every online far-right commentator is busy exploiting his murder to further strengthen their message.
Get ready for the higher education ballot - opening in October!
11.09.2025 17:01 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0VCs donβt run universities.
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We launched a new WhatsApp channel just hours ago for our Higher Education members to get the latest updates on the forthcoming industrial action ballot.
It has already has 950 subscribers. Amazing.
UCU members in HE - sign up here whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
Labour says thereβs no money left for workers.
But somehow thereβs always money for war.
Trade unions are coming together, with one simple demand: wages not weapons.
Absolutely heartbroken that UCU member Will Nelson tragically lost his life in the accident in Lisbon this week.
Rest in peace, Will. We are all devastated by this news.
Letter to David Lammy and Hamish Falconer
Our General Secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social has written to David Lammy demanding the FCDO urgently evacuates *all* Palestinian students with British university places from Gaza.
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The British government must act now β to help Palestinian students and end its complicity in Israel's genocide.
βOne of the most unsettling questions of our timesβ?!
A genuinely unsettling question is why and how the world is currently allowing a genocide of the Palestinian people, who unlike Artificial Intelligence, are actually suffering before our very eyes.
The world ignoring these war crimes is why Israel continues to commit them in plain sight.
26.08.2025 08:16 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0And Prime Minister, laws against genocideβ¦ Presumably they should be upheld too?
18.08.2025 14:42 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0You couldnβt make it up!
The man who lit the match is now lecturing us for pointing at the fire. Jo Johnson saying it's "perverse" to resist higher fees. The arrogance is staggering.
Violent men practice at home.
30.07.2025 08:39 β π 47 π 10 π¬ 2 π 1Two out of every five people arrested after participating in last summerβs riots had been reported to the police for domestic abuse.
It is never about protecting women.
