Andrea Egan addresses UNISON national higher education conference

Education is a public good, not a private profit

Debates at UNISON’s 2026 higher education conference included threats to jobs, chronic underpay and workplace injustice

Andrea Egan addressing 2026 HE conference

Fighting for pay and funding in higher education

‘While senior executive pay gets more obscene by the day, our lowest-paid staff struggle to get to the end of the month and this is not acceptable’