Cambridge UCU stands in solidarity with staff and students who face deeply embedded and largely unacknowledged racism at the University of Cambridge. We stand with students and staff who have been working at every level to name and challenge the…
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Hourly-paid teaching Report
Our new report on hourly-paid teaching reveals the pervasiveness of the casualisation of teaching staff at Cambridge, and its effects on the financial and psychological stability of University workers. The report, based on new data coming from a survey amongst…
Trinity Update and Advice
The decision. Trinity College Council has decided to pay £30m to buy out of the USS pension scheme used by much of the UK HE sector. A Special College Meeting held on 21 June 2019 to consider the Council’s decision…
Trinity’s public case for withdrawal – a Rebuttal
TRINITY’S PUBLIC CASE FOR WITHDRAWAL Trinity College has paid £30 million to buy the College out of the USS pension scheme. In public, it has presented this decision as a means of averting the remote risk that, under the “last…
Vote ‘Yes’ on 18 June to change the student disciplinary framework
Image by Kairat Muratalievo on Unsplash Content note: This blog contains mention of sexual assault On 18 June, members of Regent House have an opportunity to transform the University of Cambridge into a safer, more supportive place for our…
Open letter to the Council and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge (updated 8 June)
On Friday 24 May Trinity College announced that it will be exiting USS in spite of staff opposition. As Cambridge UCU have emphasised, Trinity’s withdrawal will not in itself affect the financial viability of USS, or the strength of the employer…
May 2019 update on USS
Members will recall from our last USS update that with the first phase of contribution increases from the 2017 valuation now in effect, the USS trustee has since the end of February been considering a proposal from Universities UK for…
Comment on Trinity College exit from USS
Cambridge UCU naturally regrets the decision made by Trinity College Council to leave USS – but not because it will make a significant difference the strength to the employer covenant or undermine USS’s financial position. As Trinity acknowledge, and has been…