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25 October 2019
Nottingham College "in crisis" after public rebuke from local politicians It was a bad weekend for Nottingham College after they were labelled "crisis college"…
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13 September 2019
University strike ballots open Strike ballots opened at UK universities on Monday in rows over USS pensions and pay, workloads, casualisation and equality. The…
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6 September 2019
USS members £240,000 worse off as costs rise and benefits cut USS members are paying far more for their pension, but will lose tens of thousands of pounds in…
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31 July 2019
GSM London says that all tuition, classes and exams would stop at the end of September GSM London - one of the largest for-profit private providers of higher education…
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12 July 2019
Racism in universities is "widespread and widely tolerated" On Saturday, the Guardian ran a huge expose of racism of university campuses. The paper said its findings,…
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8 July 2019
Staff and students will be protesting at the University of Portsmouth from 12pm on Wednesday over plans to cut jobs in the faculty of science. Protestors will be…
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5 July 2019
Ruskin College in Oxford has been accused of trade union victimisation following a string of disciplinary and redundancy threats directed at UCU members. Three…
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5 July 2019
71% of university staff say insecure contracts have damaged their mental health Staff in UK universities working on insecure contracts say the lack of security…
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28 June 2019
Staff on casual contracts visiting food banks as they struggle to make ends meet Staff on insecure contracts working in further, adult and prison education are…
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21 June 2019
81% of vice-chancellors still allowed to attend meeting that sets their pay Despite calls to improve transparency around senior pay at universities, four-fifths…
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