Reminder of the general statement of the @OralHistorySoc

SIPTU calls on Carlow College to engage with Union siptu.ie/siptu-calls-on-carl…

@CarlowCollege is being closed over two years, with all 87 staff being made redundant and all programmes wound down. Some of us will be made redundant immediately, some kept on a year by year basis. We still do not know who. Or what the workloads will be. This was not the plan.

🤡 When @PumpkinGator realised they had just lectured the actual mother of Henry Webster about Henry Webster’s case, the bravado disappeared and they deleted their tweet. The irony: they were trying to accuse me of not caring about a victim of racial violence, only to discover they were speaking to the person who spent years fighting for that very victim, my own son. I spoke to @bbc5live last week about how the BNP and EDL tried to use my son’s attack against our wishes. There is a broader lesson: people often use someone else’s tragedy as a weapon without checking the facts or understanding the people involved.

Daily Mail posts lies about the Greens that are spread far and wide. I wish half the number of people saw their apologies. Solidarity with Kamel.

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

Other branches are available including @ucunewcastle @UCUTEESSIDE2022 @UCUSunderland and of course @DurhamUCU

This is the article it appears you are talking about. We have made it paywall-free so everyone can read and decide for themselves what the truth is: thenational.scot/news/261911…

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

UCU Scotland is supporting Saturday’s anti racism demonstration in Glasgow. Standing up for equality and against those who try to divide us #Solidarity

This Saturday trade union members, citizens of Glasgow and fellow human beings will show our support for people of colour throughout Scotland and beyond. Join us. Saturday 1pm Buchanan Street Steps #PeopleMakeGlasgow #FarageRiots

You created them. Every single one of those NEETs is a product of your former party's choices. The ones you made while you were in Cabinet. Adult education and apprenticeship spending: 25% lower in 2024-25 than when your former party took office (IFS, Nuffield Foundation). Publicly funded adult further education courses: fell from 5.4 million in 2004 to 1.7 million by the time you left office. A 70% reduction, the majority of it on your watch (IFS, January 2026). College funding per student: 11% lower in real terms than 2010. Sixth-form funding per student: 23% lower (IFS, January 2025). Adults taking qualifications at GCSE level and below: down 50%. At A-level equivalent: down 33% (IFS, Nuffield Foundation). Intermediate apprenticeship starts, the entry-level route for young people without degrees: collapsed from 200,000 in 2010 to fewer than 50,000 by 2020. Your government did that (IFS). Youth services: cut by 70% since 2010 (Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025) . You had 14 years to invest in British young people. You cut adult education by 25%. You cut FE courses by 70%. You cut college funding. You cut sixth-form funding. You cut apprenticeships for the people who needed them most. You cut youth services. Then you left office and started tweeting bollocks about NEETs as though they materialised from thin air. The £5,000 Reeves is offering is a reimbursement of the Immigration Skills Charge, a levy your own government introduced in 2017 to fund domestic skills training. You created the charge. You collected the money. And you still cut the training budget by 25%. And these visas are for high-skilled workers: doctors, engineers, specialists in fields where your 14 years of cuts left a workforce gap so deep that British employers cannot fill it domestically. They are not competing with NEETs. They are filling holes your government drilled. You were Home Secretary. You were Attorney General. You sat in Cabinet while all of this happened. You do not get to set the house on fire and then complain about the smoke. Sources: Adult education and apprenticeship spending 25% below 2010 levels: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, October 2022 (ifs.org.uk/news/plans-will-l…) Adult FE courses fell from 5.4 million to 1.7 million (70% reduction): Institute for Fiscal Studies, January 2026 (ifs.org.uk/education-spendin…) College funding per student 11% lower, sixth-form funding 23% lower: Institute for Fiscal Studies, Annual Report on Education Spending in England, January 2025, cited in House of Commons Library (commonslibrary.parliament.uk…) Adults taking Level 2 qualifications down 50%, Level 3 down 33%: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation (nuffieldfoundation.org/news/…) Intermediate apprenticeship starts collapsed from 200,000 to fewer than 50,000: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, same source as above Youth services cut by 70% since 2010: Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025 (mind.org.uk/about-us/our-pol…) Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017: (legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017…) Skills policy and apprenticeship data: House of Commons Library (commonslibrary.parliament.uk…) Immigration Skills Charge parliamentary debate: Hansard, 21 March 2017 (hansard.parliament.uk/lords/…)

Joint statement with Mal O'Hara - Leader of the Green Party, Northern Ireland.

Day 12 of our strike: pickets 9-11am at Hallam Square & public meeting this evening. We are teaming up with local politicians & other Trade Unions from across the city to discuss the future of HE. Government must act to secure HE provision. Join us!

RT @Taj_Ali1: I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt” It’s working-class Black and brown…

.@ucunewcastle has generously donated to our strike fund and we are so grateful for their solidarity. We really do need a national response to the destruction of the university sector - it’s an attack on the whole of society

These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously. The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together. Now is a time for real leadership.

Please move resolutions of support from @ucu branches and make branch as well as individual donations. Members of @ucunewcastle know what it is like to be in this position and won because of mutual branch support and solidarity.

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Goldsmiths, University of London is facing “indefinite” strike action amid a row about pay being deducted for academics boycotting marking #strikes #markingboycott #highered timeshighereducation.com/new…

University of Dundee staff vote in support of more strike action bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14y… #StopTheCuts #SaveHE