Higher Education Inquiry

Coverage of industrial action and inquiries in the higher education sector.

Challenging the State: Building a Rank and File in Higher Education

by Rank-and-File University Workers / March 13, 2026

Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Academic Labour Regime: Why Our Grassroots Organising Lost

by Basit Weber / Sept. 9, 2025

How could UK workers strike for Palestine?

by James Eastwood / Aug. 23, 2024

Hope and strategy after the MAB

by Sol Gamsu / Sept. 15, 2023

Justice4CollegeSupervisors: How Cambridge UCU organised casual teachers in the academic gig economy

by Lorena Gazzotti / Sept. 15, 2023

Labour Casualisation in UK Higher Education (Part 2)

by Roberto Mozzachiodi / Aug. 21, 2023

New Strategies, New Orthodoxies

by James Eastwood / Aug. 1, 2023

Short of the Long Haul (Part 2)

by Jack Davies, Sarah Mason / July 28, 2023

Short of the Long Haul (Part 1)

by Jack Davies, Sarah Mason / July 11, 2023

Winning a Bargaining Unit for All Graduate Workers

by Logan E. Mann / July 3, 2023

Reflections on a Teaching Assistant Strike

by Michael Mueller, Lucy Peterson / July 3, 2023

Labour Casualisation in UK Higher Education (Part 1)

by Roberto Mozzachiodi / July 3, 2023

Minority Strikes Can Work

by Bethany Kosmicki, Matt Ford / July 3, 2023

Lessons from the New School Strike

by Andy Battle / July 3, 2023

The University Strikes, as seen from Birkbeck Library

by Anonymous library worker / April 28, 2023

UCU and the University Worker: Experiments with a bulletin

by The University Worker / April 28, 2023

The Education Sector

by Notes from Below / March 21, 2023

Discovering a pregnancy while casualised

by Anonymous HE worker / March 6, 2023

A Second Strike Report from a Higher Education Worker

by Anonymous HE worker / Feb. 9, 2023

Strike Report from a Higher Education Worker

by Anonymous HE worker / Oct. 7, 2022

5,000 students are going on rent strike: on the past and future of our movement

by Matthew / Jan. 5, 2021

“Back to Work” But in Danger

by Invisíveis / May 21, 2020

Strikes in the Time of Coronavirus

March 19, 2020

Technical Composition of University “Support” Labour

by Thomas Litterick / Nov. 25, 2019

A University Administrator Inquiry

by Thomas Litterick / Sept. 29, 2019

After Grady's election - where is the Rank and File?

by Sai Englert / May 31, 2019

Invisible Nodes

by Invisíveis / Dec. 15, 2018

Looking Back in Anger: the UCU strikes

by Sai Englert, Jamie Woodcock / Aug. 30, 2018

Anti-casualisation in practice: a podcast on the Fractional For Fair Play campaign at SOAS

by Sai Englert, Carrie Benjamin, Nithya Natarajan / Aug. 16, 2018

Report from UCU Congress 2018

by Sai Englert / June 1, 2018

Victory is in sight, but no deal yet!

by Notes from Below / March 24, 2018

After the first wave of strikes: how can we win?

by Jamie Woodcock / March 17, 2018

Indefinite strike begins at York University, Toronto

by Callum Cant, Jamie Woodcock / March 5, 2018

Six points on the eve of the UCU strike

by Jamie Woodcock / Feb. 21, 2018

A workers’ inquiry among academics: Hourly-paid teaching staff at Goldsmiths College, London

by Jamie Woodcock, Brendan Donegan, Sølvi Goard / Jan. 29, 2018