Staff at the University of Essex have delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in vice-chancellor Frances Bowen, unions reveal today. Professor Bowen was appointed in August 2025. By December, she’d unveiled plans to slash 400 staff and close down the entire campus at Southend in an effort to stabilise finances. But staff say the […]
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Staff, students and members of the public will come together to help save the Southend campus of the University of Essex this weekend, UNISON says today. They will march and rally through the city on Sunday (8 March) urging the university to keep higher education in Southend. People will gather at 1pm at the top […]
Cleaners, IT staff and customer service workers will join a lunchtime rally against sweeping job losses at the University of Essex in Colchester on Thursday, says UNISON. The rally, jointly organised by UNISON and the University and College Union (UCU), will call on bosses to stop plans to axe 400 jobs and close the university’s […]
New UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan will speak at a rally in Southend later this week calling on the University of Essex to scrap plans to cut 400 jobs, says UNISON today. Andrea will also urge the university to abandon proposals to shut down its Southend campus when she speaks on Thursday (5 February). UNISON […]
Hundreds of job losses at the University of Essex will wreck students’ experiences and pile misery on staff, says UNISON today. The vice chancellor, Professor Frances Bowen, told staff today the Southend campus will shut and around 400 full-time posts will go from across the institution. That amounts to around a fifth of the current […]