Excited to say that our MSc in #Criminology and Social Policy has a new start date of September 2026. Want to come learn from dynamic researchers in a supportive and inclusive space? Find out more here: www.strath.ac.uk/courses/post...

Our members tell us that the concept of making a profit from vulnerable children in need of care is deeply uncomfortable. In this consultation, we emphasise the need for high-quality care services which have room to grow and develop without accumulating excessive profit.

Fifty branches, representing over 36% of UCU members, have now called for @drjogrady.bsky.social to enter unconditional negotiations & remove the threat of punitive deductions against staff. Unite's repeated requests for such talks have had no response. Will she now listen to @ucu.org.uk members?

💥Breaking: Italy’s two largest unions call national general strike after Israel’s flotilla attack The Italian unions CGIL and USB announced a nationwide general strike for Friday, October 3, covering all public and private sectors. The move follows Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla carrying...

Please read this thread - and the article linked - re AI. Especially if you have any thoughts of using AI in social work, education, or anything else where humans are inportant.

1,341,958 now. Please sign this.

Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state. Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.

The private equity firm Apposite Capital has quietly been plundering the care system for vulnerable children and young people. Here’s how. 🧵

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

This is utterly despicable. They are bringing the union into disrepute. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

Why are you threatening #UCU staff with pay deductions for ASOS? UCU policy is to oppose punitive deduction for ASOS And why are you asking staff to fill out a form when UCU members at QMUL were advised not to do this?

Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹

If you or anyone you know works/studies at University of Edinburgh, please ensure they have signed this petition to Court (governing body) calling on UoE to divest from genocide. So far 670+ staff and 800+ student/alumni signatures - not bad, but we can do better! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Coventry call to tackle 'obscene' children’s home profits after firm charged £48,000 for weekend accommodation www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...

Textbook Launch Event🚀 Join us for this in-person event @edinburghnapier.bsky.social on 7 Oct 3-5pm where we bring together a range of voices to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going. Register your place now 👇 bit.ly/criminal-jus...

HUUUGE turnout this morning to demand protection for our jobs and our students' learning conditions. There is no deficit!!!

Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today! uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u... We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.

Jo is intentionally omitting key details here. General Secretary, be transparent with your members for once, the ballot is on 3 issues: 1. Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2. Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3. A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things: 1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects #WeAreTheUniversity

If you want to learn about participatory research and the experiences of Black and Mixed heritage children and young people - this webinar is for you. Join us on MS Teams, tickets are free: buff.ly/GVZSd5m 15 October, 12:00-13:00

Striking today to stop jobs cuts at the University of Edinburgh. It is a manufactured crisis. There is no deficit. #stopmassredundancies

Obligatory ballot / postbox and photo. Go vote for @beehughes.bsky.social #ucu

Quite frankly speechless. The hypocrisy is staggering. #TUC #UCU #Unite #TradeDispute #TradeUnion #ReclaimUCU

Jo Grady finds new ways to undermine UCU every week. TUC attendees should let her know their views. Oh, and where is the outcome from HEC @drjogrady.bsky.social?

Obligatory ballot / postbox and photo. Go vote for @beehughes.bsky.social #ucu

Delighted to have voted for @beehughes.bsky.social in the @ucu.org.uk elections. Please make sure you give them your vote.

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

Delighted to have voted for @beehughes.bsky.social in the @ucu.org.uk elections. Please make sure you give them your vote.

“The family see police legal action as a pathetic attempt to derail the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. For over a decade Sheku has been smeared, stereotyped & crim­in­alised in order to negate his right to life, but history will be on the side of Sheku." - Aamer Anwar, lawyer to Sheku's family

🚨 Falkirk: Emergency mobilisation TOMORROW! Join Stand Up to Racism, @ScottishTUC and Falkirk anti-racists and trade unionists to defend refugees at the Cladhan Hotel against the far right who are marching on the hotel. Organise delegations, spread the word!

Police Scotland have been urged to 'immediately abandon' plans to introduce facial recognition software for public surveillance by Amnesty International and 13 other advocacy groups

And then we were 101. #UKHE #SaveHE #UKHEShrinking

“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including @rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction. They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

We’ve been relatively quiet recently. Unfortunately this isn’t because we’re finally making progress in our long-running dispute over our demand for a safe and professional workplace. Nor is it because industrial relations are improving and our employer is now engaging meaningfully. Long 🧵

One of these chaps threatened to “chop me up”. Another one spat at me. Later I swerved two eggs and a flare thrown at me. “Real” Nazis out in force today; please get to the next demo to well any confidence amongst the agitators.

The University of Strathclyde is seeking a Research and Knowledge Mobilisation Associate to inform and support change around the practice of physical restraint in residential child care: buff.ly/dkVQCPK

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

Prison education overhaul? Or more of the same? The government’s £1.5bn ‘overhaul’ hands contracts back to the same failing providers. This isn’t reform. It’s repeat failure. #PrisonEducation #UCU feweek.co.uk/existing-pro...

📢 Have your say on the 2025/26 pay offer. Your voice matters. Don’t leave it to others. VOTE NOW!

#WolffBites: Dont be distracted by those who blame homelessness on mental illness or addiction. The basic cause is capitalism: too-high home prices for too-low wages/salaries worsened by banks' too-high mortgage interest rates.

#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1029...

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Why are venture capitalists being allowed to profit from prison education? The govt urgently needs to confirm these profiteers will not be allowed to line their pockets by slashing our members’ pensions. Thank you @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social for raising this in parliament.

The myth that the economy runs like a family's household finances is a myth that really needs to end.

Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it. This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record. This is not how a democracy behaves. We will not be silenced.

Yet more evidence of the unacceptable risks to which vulnerable children are being exposed in supported accommodation, via this Ofsted report into a company called Just One Health and Social Care in Liverpool. reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/53/...

📢 UCU members at University of the West of Scotland are balloting for strike action over devastating job cuts. 112 staff already gone. 75 more under threat. Management still refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1408...