Live Roundups Editor's Desk Insights Executive Ops Weather About 🔍
Home › Education › University staff begin five-week strike on day one of new term
Education

University staff begin five-week strike on day one of new term

University staff begin five-week strike on day one of new term
BBC Scotland Monday 21 September 2026, 05:11 UTC 1 min read
Key Points

UCU members at the university will not take part in teaching until the end of October.

UCU members at the university will not take part in teaching until the end of October.
UCU (ORG)
Originally published by BBC Scotland Read original →

Related Stories

Easy access to family guns fuels Philippine school shootings

Advertisement Easy access to family guns fuels Philippine school shootings Three fatal attacks since June have been traced back to state-linked weapons, exposing fatal flaws in official gun control 4-MIN READ4-MIN The Philippines has suffered three deadly school shootings since June. In each case, at least one weapon belonged to a relative working in government or law enforcement, whether as an official service issue or a privately licensed firearm. On Friday, a student at Banga National...

South China Morning Post 11m ago

‘Our generation was mentally strong’: Congress leader on IIT-B suicide case

The Mumbai Police has transferred the case to the Crime Branch after the student’s father filed a complaint NEW DELHI: Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed on Monday expressed solidarity with an IIT Bombay professor accused by the father of a second-year BTech student of harassing his son, saying that students in her generation were “mentally strong”. The student, from IIT Bombay’s Department of Energy Science and Engineering, allegedly died by suicide on Friday evening after he was found...

Times of India 44m ago

Meloni promises to ban burqas, niqabs in Italy’s schools

Meloni promises to ban burqas, niqabs in Italy’s schools NewsFeed Meloni promises to ban burqas, niqabs in Italy’s schools Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is planning to ban the burqa and niqab in schools and cap the number of foreign students per class. The move comes as Meloni seeks to boost her popularity ahead of Italy’s election next year. Published On 21 Sep 2026

Al Jazeera 49m ago

Meet Rajarshi Mandal, 16, whose malaria model won him $50,000

At 16, Rajarshi Mandal is already tackling a problem that has challenged public-health systems for decades: how to make limited malaria-prevention resources go further. The Lexington High School student built a mathematical model designed to determine where insecticide-treated mosquito nets could have the greatest impact, and his work earned him a $50,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship, states an online report by the Davidson Institute. The report adds that Mandal, a rising junior from...

Times of India 1h ago