UK universities face more strikes unless employers resume talks, union warns

UCU’s education committee is planning to hit universities with multiple days of strike action at the start of the new academic year. Photograph: Sinai Noor/Rex/Shutterstock

Universities across the UK will face another round of strikes next month unless employers agree to return to the negotiating table, the University and College Union has warned.

A marking boycott that has left tens of thousands of students without their degree result this summer will continue, the union said, while preparations will get under way for a new strike ballot to renew the union’s mandate.