Selected media & press coverage
Help us log media coverage by adding stories here: media coverage - UCU Edinburgh Industrial Action, September-October 2026
Highlights
BBC Scotland Breakfast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00323wn
*UCUE Co-Vice-Presidents Courtney Stafford-Walter and Marion Lieutaud at 6:49am (from 49:51 in the link)
*Peter Mathieson’s response at 7:51 (from 1:51:30 in the link)
The Herald ‘What Edinburgh University chief really thinks about programme cuts’
‘“Maybe you live in a world where the cost doesn't matter or where there is no need to be concerned about the future…” — Those are the words of Sir Peter Mathieson defending recent programme closures in an email sent to a student and a number of Edinburgh MSPs.’
The Student ‘University college office spending surged in year of £140m cuts’
‘Spending by the University of Edinburgh’s college offices — the management tier that sits above its schools — rose by a third in the year staff were told £140m had to be cut, The Student can reveal.’
Week by week
19-23 Oct (strike week 4)
Herald article about the response to the student has 20.1k views on X: https://x.com/joshpizpom/status/2112203157132485066
https://www.instagram.com/p/DewnfcWDAEi/?srtk=MWlwOTdmcDB0NDExYg==
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26654491.four-programmes-close-edinburgh-futures-institute/
12-16 Oct (strike week 3)
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05-11 Oct (strike week 2)
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28 Sept - 04 Oct (strike week 1)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26603242.edinburgh-university-staff-warned-threatening-behaviour/
https://thestudentnews.co.uk/2026/10/02/ucu-strike-outside-scottish-parliament/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26598988.hundreds-protest-university-job-programme-cuts/
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/edinburgh-uni-staff-begin-five-week-strike
BBC: Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr62443nnxvno