Statement regarding UCU Strike Ballot at Sheffield International College

Updated 27/3/25

Update regarding planned strike action by UCU members on Friday 28th March, Tuesday 1st April and Thursday 3rd April.

Study Group is committed to providing an excellent education to international students from around the world.

Like many universities and higher education providers, we need to adapt our staffing to recent changes in international recruitment and regrettably at Sheffield this means reducing employee numbers. Throughout the months of active engagement with our employees and their representatives including the UCU, we have been able to avoid compulsory redundancies through redeployment and voluntary redundancies. Several staff have been redeployed to take up new opportunities elsewhere in our network of international study centres, to continue to deliver quality global education.

Study Group has been notified today that the planned strike action on Friday 28th March is suspended.  As educators, we welcome this decision to avoid detriment to our students’ education.