Spotlight: Higher education in Yorkshire and Humberside

Universities across the country are facing significant financial challenges after over a decade of cuts to budgets from the previous Conservative government. The higher education sector is in crisis. A combination of tuition fees, Brexit, a drop in international student numbers—worsened by the previous government’s hostile stance on immigration—and inflationary pressures has put some universities […]

Strike action at The University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University

Thousands of university workers strike again over wages, says UNISON   Higher education staff are walking out over the coming days in a third wave of strikes over inadequate pay, says UNISON today (Thursday).   Administrators, cleaners, library, security and catering workers – many of them the lowest paid in the​ university sector – are […]