QM UCU

30/08/2026

Message from the QMUCU committee on the death of Professor Jason Array:

Over the past couple of weeks we have experienced horror, sadness and rage over the devastating loss of Professor Jason Arday. We have witnessed the public harassment of a Black, neurodiverse and working-class professor. We understand this in the context of growing attacks from the right on racialised academics and their scholarship, and as part of the inherent structures of exclusion that have also shaped UK HE institutions.

As university workers, one of the most striking aspects of this tragedy, though not surprising for many of us, has been the profound lack of accountability, compassion or duty of care practiced by Cambridge University for a member of their institution facing the sharp end of a fascist campaign against anti-colonial scholarship. We also know Professor Arday would be no better supported in any other UK University. Here at QMUL we have a long and public history of the failure of our workplace to keep racialised students and staff safe, or to respond with due care when global racialised violence walks onto campus: from the resignation of Sandra Brown, the former Diversity and Inclusion Manager, to the attacks faced by students protesting the Gaza genocide on Queen Mary’s own lawn. The sector as a whole is failing the most marginalised academics.

29/07/2026

✊No more cuts! No more spending on war!✊

At a time of constant cuts and mergers, Queen Mary University of London joined the Defence University Alliance (DUA) in an opaque move. The DUA aims to increase cooperation between the defence sector and higher education. Instead of deepening the ties with the military-industrial complex, we call on the university to take its workers seriously.

No more cuts! No more spending on war!

27/05/2026

Australian consultants take so much money from UK tuition fees, only to make UK degrees less interesting, specific, and viable. We need an urgent limit on the use of external consultants.

In the meantime, we need managers who actually protect the valuable degree programmes they have and which have been built up with expertise over the years.

01/05/2026

Fascinating that these kinds of deals get posted about on social media before any of it is communicated to students. These students are not the props in your influencer game, show them some respect.

Entérate de los comunicados y noticias más importantes del IPN sobre avances tecnológicos, científicos e información clave para la comunidad politécnica.

29/04/2026

International partnerships are not just for the photo-op and PR story about how good you are at internationalisation. The people on that partnership shouldn’t just be brushed aside or, worse, dismissed at trouble makers for trying to raise issues with the partnership. These students did everything they could, the institutions failed them.

23/04/2026

The human cost of a sector bent on capturing cash and managers bent on careerism: shattered dreams, betrayal of years of work — on the degree and to survive in London because the stipend was only £10,800 per year.

The way these students are treated is unacceptable. How did it ever come to the point an official partner can simply pull funding midway through a degree? How come isn’t showing the same humanity as Durham in reassuring students that their finances are covered until the end of this year at least, to give time to sort things with the funder?

Staff and students alike have been ringing the alarm bell about this partnership and how it was administrated for years. Had QMUL acted and not managed away those concerns, we wouldn’t be in the situation where the degrees and visas of 30 students at risk.
Thanks to for covering the story. Link in bio.

09/04/2026

Students haven’t been told about all the cuts to modules in the School of the Arts. They had to learn via their absence on the module selection platform (and this account…). Yet much of these cuts are done with the excuse of “student satisfaction”. Have the external consultants ever spoken with a student? On what basis do they declare what students want or need?

Let’s actually talk with students and staff about what is being done to our university and how we can act together.

Meeting for all students in the School of the Arts on 15 April at 1pm, in rehearsal room 2 and on MS Teams.

07/04/2026

QMUL is planning to drastically change what a degree in the School of the Arts looks like. Say no to these cuts. Yes to these modules. If you’re a STA student, co-sign the petition. Link in our linktree in bio.

21/03/2026

Management is planning to cut at least 295 modules in the School of the Arts. Those cuts destroy shared learning community and research & teaching excellence that has been decades in the making. They also decimate student choice.
Defend what makes QMUL QMUL. Defend what it means to make university: where students learn from the cutting edge of research. Defend the opportunities of upcoming generations.

19/03/2026

The way management has been treating post-graduate students and casualised workers has been abysmal and quite the tell about how they are staff. But .pact has been organising brilliantly.

Come and hear their stories and be an informed member of
Tuesday 24 March, 1pm, Library Square