UCU University of Greenwich
@ucugreenwich.bsky.social
University of Greenwich UCU Branch. Supporting educators and staff members at the University of Greenwich. UCU is the largest post-16 education union in the world. Go to https://greenwich.web.ucu.org.uk/ for details on how to join UCU and get involved!
Proposal to change legal name of University of Greenwich to 'London & South East University Group'. For 2026-27 academic year. If you wanted to change the name of a *single degree programme*, the deadline would be coming up soon. Someone in a hurry? www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications...
Proposed new legal name for the University of Greenwich - Office for Students
We are consulting on a proposed new legal name for the University of Greenwich.
www.officeforstudents.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Proposal to change legal name of University of Greenwich to 'London & South East University Group'. For 2026-27 academic year. If you wanted to change the name of a *single degree programme*, the deadline would be coming up soon. Someone in a hurry? www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications...
Good afternoon, folks! Feeling in need of an afternoon pick-me-up? Why not get out and post your ballot! Nothing energizes quite like knowing you're contributing to the best chance we have to change HE!
Celebrate with your choice of snack afterwards! #WeAreTheUniversity
Celebrate with your choice of snack afterwards! #WeAreTheUniversity
Bought some ice cream from the cornershop & posted my @ucu.org.uk ballot.
As my dept rep said this week, pensions took 5 years to win, we've got to be dogged & stubborn even when we're tired.
There's no way (higher) education will get better without education workers fighting for it
#WeAreTheUni
As my dept rep said this week, pensions took 5 years to win, we've got to be dogged & stubborn even when we're tired.
There's no way (higher) education will get better without education workers fighting for it
#WeAreTheUni
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Good afternoon, folks! Feeling in need of an afternoon pick-me-up? Why not get out and post your ballot! Nothing energizes quite like knowing you're contributing to the best chance we have to change HE!
Celebrate with your choice of snack afterwards! #WeAreTheUniversity
Celebrate with your choice of snack afterwards! #WeAreTheUniversity
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📣 National Get The Vote Out LIVE!
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📣 National Get The Vote Out LIVE!
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
Happy Friday folks! Whatever else you're doing this weekend, if there's a ballot paper sitting around in your house, fill it in (voting YES of course) and post it! Take a photo while you do so, and send it to us so others get inspired ✊
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Happy Friday folks! Whatever else you're doing this weekend, if there's a ballot paper sitting around in your house, fill it in (voting YES of course) and post it! Take a photo while you do so, and send it to us so others get inspired ✊
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The importance of voting YES in the UCU national ballot.
📢some reasons:
The pay offer this year is a mere 1.4% but inflation is 3.8% which means our pay’s gone down since the recession of 2007-9 by 20-30% in real terms, depending on whether you use CPI or RPI measures.
📢some reasons:
The pay offer this year is a mere 1.4% but inflation is 3.8% which means our pay’s gone down since the recession of 2007-9 by 20-30% in real terms, depending on whether you use CPI or RPI measures.
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The importance of voting YES in the UCU national ballot.
📢some reasons:
The pay offer this year is a mere 1.4% but inflation is 3.8% which means our pay’s gone down since the recession of 2007-9 by 20-30% in real terms, depending on whether you use CPI or RPI measures.
📢some reasons:
The pay offer this year is a mere 1.4% but inflation is 3.8% which means our pay’s gone down since the recession of 2007-9 by 20-30% in real terms, depending on whether you use CPI or RPI measures.
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More #UCU branches now added to our starter pack 💞 of formal branch/committee presences we've found (no individuals)
Please let us know if yours is missing (and sorry about the delay @ucugreenwich.bsky.social @brunelucu.bsky.social @ysjucu.bsky.social @uhiucu.bsky.social @ucuimperial.bsky.social!)
Please let us know if yours is missing (and sorry about the delay @ucugreenwich.bsky.social @brunelucu.bsky.social @ysjucu.bsky.social @uhiucu.bsky.social @ucuimperial.bsky.social!)
We made a starter pack!
It’s got all the formal branch and commitee presences we could find so far for #UCU - please let us know if your branch / regional committee / other formal elected committee is missing and we’ll do our best to keep it up to date! (No individuals on here) go.bsky.app/H8xiSXj
It’s got all the formal branch and commitee presences we could find so far for #UCU - please let us know if your branch / regional committee / other formal elected committee is missing and we’ll do our best to keep it up to date! (No individuals on here) go.bsky.app/H8xiSXj
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
More #UCU branches now added to our starter pack 💞 of formal branch/committee presences we've found (no individuals)
Please let us know if yours is missing (and sorry about the delay @ucugreenwich.bsky.social @brunelucu.bsky.social @ysjucu.bsky.social @uhiucu.bsky.social @ucuimperial.bsky.social!)
Please let us know if yours is missing (and sorry about the delay @ucugreenwich.bsky.social @brunelucu.bsky.social @ysjucu.bsky.social @uhiucu.bsky.social @ucuimperial.bsky.social!)
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Don’t just take it from us- Richard Wild, branch co-chair at Greenwich, explains why he’s voting YES to change the future of higher education in the UK.
💌 Why are you voting YES? Let us know in the comments below ⬇️
#WeAreTheUniversity
💌 Why are you voting YES? Let us know in the comments below ⬇️
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Don’t just take it from us- Richard Wild, branch co-chair at Greenwich, explains why he’s voting YES to change the future of higher education in the UK.
💌 Why are you voting YES? Let us know in the comments below ⬇️
#WeAreTheUniversity
💌 Why are you voting YES? Let us know in the comments below ⬇️
#WeAreTheUniversity
We know it may feel like you live at work... but you don't! So unless you check your work post daily/can't avoid it, PLEASE don't put your work address as your postal address on MyUCU! If you have, or if you're not sure, change it here: www.ucu.org.uk/myucu .
'My UCU'
Manage and update your personal information with UCU anywhere and any time with 'My UCU'.
www.ucu.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We know it may feel like you live at work... but you don't! So unless you check your work post daily/can't avoid it, PLEASE don't put your work address as your postal address on MyUCU! If you have, or if you're not sure, change it here: www.ucu.org.uk/myucu .
Have you received your ballot paper? Ballot papers in hot pink envelopes (so you can't miss them) are arriving in the homes of members. Your vote gives your union the power to reopen negotiations & fight for you! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1422...
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Have you received your ballot paper? Ballot papers in hot pink envelopes (so you can't miss them) are arriving in the homes of members. Your vote gives your union the power to reopen negotiations & fight for you! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1422...
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📣 Every convo counts. Every vote matters. 💥
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📣 Every convo counts. Every vote matters. 💥
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
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An inspiring first day of picketing to kick off our 4 weeks of strike action! Faculty, students, AND a dog or two made an appearance.
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An inspiring first day of picketing to kick off our 4 weeks of strike action! Faculty, students, AND a dog or two made an appearance.
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Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social members who are striking against compulsory redundancies and job losses at the University of Nottingham.
I urge the university’s leadership to come back to the table and work with staff to reach a fair settlement.
I urge the university’s leadership to come back to the table and work with staff to reach a fair settlement.
Strike starts TODAY!!!
Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road.
Come show your support!
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road.
Come show your support!
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Strike action is ON!!!
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social members who are striking against compulsory redundancies and job losses at the University of Nottingham.
I urge the university’s leadership to come back to the table and work with staff to reach a fair settlement.
I urge the university’s leadership to come back to the table and work with staff to reach a fair settlement.
Sending solidarity and wishes for sunshine to our comrades at the University of Nottingham! #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Strike starts TODAY!!!
Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road.
Come show your support!
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road.
Come show your support!
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Strike action is ON!!!
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sending solidarity and wishes for sunshine to our comrades at the University of Nottingham! #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Joint statement from @ucu.org.uk , @unitetheunion.bsky.social , @unison.org.uk, @gmb.org.uk & @eisunion on @ucea-leadership.bsky.social 's insulting pay offer
All staff in HE have had enough of attacks on Pay, Jobs + Terms & Conditions in HE and will be balloting together for Industrial Action.
All staff in HE have had enough of attacks on Pay, Jobs + Terms & Conditions in HE and will be balloting together for Industrial Action.
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Joint statement from @ucu.org.uk , @unitetheunion.bsky.social , @unison.org.uk, @gmb.org.uk & @eisunion on @ucea-leadership.bsky.social 's insulting pay offer
All staff in HE have had enough of attacks on Pay, Jobs + Terms & Conditions in HE and will be balloting together for Industrial Action.
All staff in HE have had enough of attacks on Pay, Jobs + Terms & Conditions in HE and will be balloting together for Industrial Action.
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"Every vote counts. Make sure you send a strong message you aren't having it" - @rmtunion.bsky.social GS Eddie Dempsey
UCU stands with the RMT in their dispute on London Underground, and they stand with us 🤝
#WeAreTheUniversity
UCU stands with the RMT in their dispute on London Underground, and they stand with us 🤝
#WeAreTheUniversity
September 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
"Every vote counts. Make sure you send a strong message you aren't having it" - @rmtunion.bsky.social GS Eddie Dempsey
UCU stands with the RMT in their dispute on London Underground, and they stand with us 🤝
#WeAreTheUniversity
UCU stands with the RMT in their dispute on London Underground, and they stand with us 🤝
#WeAreTheUniversity
Thank you!! We appreciate you and support your fight 💪
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.
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.
September 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Thank you!! We appreciate you and support your fight 💪
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This isn't my idea it's @alicebennett.bsky.social 's as I recall, but I think it's time for this meme to join our HE binfire pantheon.
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This isn't my idea it's @alicebennett.bsky.social 's as I recall, but I think it's time for this meme to join our HE binfire pantheon.
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Yes exactly. Universities can't afford research but they can spend millions on consultants, who give them the same stock solutions they've given everyone else
Ban consultancy spend by universities then. Seriously. It’s the same spreadsheets recycled and the same downward spiral diagnosis every time. And costs hundreds of millions across the sector.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
September 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Yes exactly. Universities can't afford research but they can spend millions on consultants, who give them the same stock solutions they've given everyone else
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Two universities with well-established architecture departments are set to merge, forming the UK’s first ‘super-university’
Greenwich and Kent to merge into UK’s first ‘super-university’
Greenwich and Kent to merge into UK’s first ‘super-university’
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Two universities with well-established architecture departments are set to merge, forming the UK’s first ‘super-university’
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UCU Greenwich branch co-chair Dr Richard Wild told BBC London this morning that he only learned of the “super-university” via BBC
“If nothing’s going to change, what’s the advantage?”
Both Greenwich and Kent staff deserve clarity and reassurance, not spin or more job cuts.
“If nothing’s going to change, what’s the advantage?”
Both Greenwich and Kent staff deserve clarity and reassurance, not spin or more job cuts.
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
UCU Greenwich branch co-chair Dr Richard Wild told BBC London this morning that he only learned of the “super-university” via BBC
“If nothing’s going to change, what’s the advantage?”
Both Greenwich and Kent staff deserve clarity and reassurance, not spin or more job cuts.
“If nothing’s going to change, what’s the advantage?”
Both Greenwich and Kent staff deserve clarity and reassurance, not spin or more job cuts.
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At #TUC2025, UCU President Maria Chondragianni challenged Labour on higher education:
“The Tories introduced a failed, marketised model across education. This has been disastrous.”
✊ We will keep holding Labour to account.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
“The Tories introduced a failed, marketised model across education. This has been disastrous.”
✊ We will keep holding Labour to account.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
September 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
At #TUC2025, UCU President Maria Chondragianni challenged Labour on higher education:
“The Tories introduced a failed, marketised model across education. This has been disastrous.”
✊ We will keep holding Labour to account.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
“The Tories introduced a failed, marketised model across education. This has been disastrous.”
✊ We will keep holding Labour to account.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
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🚨 Greenwich & Kent staff + students woke up to hear from the news their universities will merge.
This isn’t innovation, it’s crisis management.
👉 Members ignored. Students left in the dark.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
This isn’t innovation, it’s crisis management.
👉 Members ignored. Students left in the dark.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
September 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨 Greenwich & Kent staff + students woke up to hear from the news their universities will merge.
This isn’t innovation, it’s crisis management.
👉 Members ignored. Students left in the dark.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
This isn’t innovation, it’s crisis management.
👉 Members ignored. Students left in the dark.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity
Our co-chair Ruth Ballardie speaking up for staff! "She said immediate concerns among staff revolved around how the merger could impact job security, pay, and pensions ... Despite the job cuts, Ballardie observed that Greenwich posted a £33 million surplus" - QUITE. #Kentwich
I spoke to Jane Harrington, the current vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich, who is set to lead the 'Kentwich' merger. She said:
- Other universities could join the group at a later stage
- She could not rule out job cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-un...
- Other universities could join the group at a later stage
- She could not rule out job cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-un...
More universities could join new Kent-Greenwich group, says v-c
Incoming leader of new entity says course sharing on the cards ‘where it makes sense’ as unions fear merger will result in more job cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Our co-chair Ruth Ballardie speaking up for staff! "She said immediate concerns among staff revolved around how the merger could impact job security, pay, and pensions ... Despite the job cuts, Ballardie observed that Greenwich posted a £33 million surplus" - QUITE. #Kentwich
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They call it “trailblazing.”
We call it financial crisis rebranded.
“This isn’t a merger, it’s a takeover by Greenwich.” @drjogrady.bsky.social told the BBC
We call it financial crisis rebranded.
“This isn’t a merger, it’s a takeover by Greenwich.” @drjogrady.bsky.social told the BBC
September 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
They call it “trailblazing.”
We call it financial crisis rebranded.
“This isn’t a merger, it’s a takeover by Greenwich.” @drjogrady.bsky.social told the BBC
We call it financial crisis rebranded.
“This isn’t a merger, it’s a takeover by Greenwich.” @drjogrady.bsky.social told the BBC