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At work

• Pay
  • HE pay and salaries
    • Pay negotiating in higher education
    • HE pay framework agreement
    • Job evaluation & equal pay
  • FE pay in England
    • FE England pay latest
    • English FE finances to 2022
    • How much funding is your college getting?
    • England FE national pay campaign 2024/25 FAQ
  • FE pay in Wales
  • FE pay in Northern Ireland
    • FAQ on Northern Ireland FE industrial action
  • Adult, youth and community workers pay
  • Gender pay
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• Contracts and conditions
• Pensions
  • USS latest
    • All USS news
    • Winning for USS: 2020-24
    • 2016 changes in USS
  • Teachers' Pension Scheme
  • USS & TPS at-a-glance
  • Other pension schemes
  • Pensions checklist
  • Retirement & Â鶹¹ÙÍø membership
• Equality
  • Age discrimination
  • Disability discrimination
    • Accessibility as Standard checklist
    • Day of action for disability equality in education
    • Accessibility checklist for events
    • Disability History Month
    • Mental health awareness days
    • Carers' Week
  • Gender discrimination
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø statement on abortion rights
    • International Women's Day
    • 16 days in 16 ways
    • Week of action against sexual harassment
  • Gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø LGBT+ charter
  • Migrant members
  • Racism and religious discrimination
    • Black Voices
    • Justice for Nahel!
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø week of action against workplace racism
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø anti-fascism/antisemitism campaigning
    • Black History Month
    • Holocaust Memorial Day
    • International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • General equality resources
    • Equality resource archives
    • General tools for equality
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø guidance: caring for the carers
    • Sexual violence and harassment: a Â鶹¹ÙÍø statement
  • Equality updates
  • Equality events
    • Annual equality groups conference 2024
    • Equality research conferences
    • Equality webinars
• Covid-19 crisis
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø coronavirus advice
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø's post-16 education recovery principles
  • Covid-19: Â鶹¹ÙÍø contingency planning
  • Covid-19 branch resources
  • Information for international staff
  • Information for HE members
  • Information for prison educators
  • Information for FE members
  • Information for ACE members
• Health and safety
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø coronavirus advice
• Careers and professional development
• Governance
  • Thinking of becoming an FE governor?

Campaigns & policy

• Stop the Cuts: Fund Higher Education NOW!
  • Protect Education Now: national rally on Saturday 10 May
• A New Deal for FE
  • New Deal for FE consultation, May-June 2025
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø branches participating in the New Deal for FE consultation, May-June 2025
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø head of further education update, April 2025
  • The case for binding national negotiations in further education in England
  • Ask your MP to help ensure extra funding for England's colleges is spent on staff
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø prison educators: unlocking futures
• Your support is needed
• Members winning at work
• Climate emergency
  • COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference: a trade union issue
    • COP28 special: climate adaptation and industrial relations
    • COP28 special: climate adaptation and education/learning
    • COP28 special: climate adaptation and operations/estate
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø COP27 statement
  • Green new deal
  • Implementing climate learning as a central pillar of education
    • November 2022 climate learning month
  • Environmental links and resources
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø climate and sustainability CPD offering
    • Decarbonise & decolonise 2030
  • Greener Jobs Alliance
  • Environment spotlight
• Build the Union
• Stamp out casual contracts
  • PGRs as staff, not students
    • #PGRsOrganising - events series from the PGRs As Staff campaign
    • PGR campaign news
  • Making a difference
  • Casualised contract information for members
  • Casualisation campaign resources
    • Recruiting and negotiating on behalf of staff on casual contracts
    • Representation of fixed-term and hourly paid members on branch committees
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø commentary on the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø commentary on the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000
  • Stamp Out in HE
  • Stamp Out in FE
    • Organising part-time and hourly-paid lecturers - a further education toolkit
    • Precarious contracts in FE - institution snapshot
  • Security Matters
  • How Â鶹¹ÙÍø membership works for precariously employed and unemployed staff
  • Anti-casualisation roadshow
• Workload campaign
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø workload survey
  • 2012 Â鶹¹ÙÍø stress survey
  • My workload, your education
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø policy hub
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø campaign update
• Fighting privatisation in tertiary education
  • Fighting privatisation toolkit
  • Willetts warnings

Members

• Getting help
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  • Insecure contracts
  • Disciplinaries, dismissal and redundancy
  • Illness, stress and injury
    • Member health & safety factsheets
  • Discrimination, bullying and harassment
  • Gender-based violence and domestic abuse
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø legal support
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  • Intellectual property rights
• Your Â鶹¹ÙÍø membership
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• Â鶹¹ÙÍø member benefits
• Want to get more involved?
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø member networks
• Donate to the fighting fund
  • Claim from Â鶹¹ÙÍø's fighting fund
• Taking industrial action

Nations & regions

• Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland
  • About Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland executive
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland campaigning & political work
    • Gender recognition reform in Scotland
    • Statement of Common Cause
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland policy
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland Congress
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland branches
  • Scottish Teachers Pension Scheme
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø Cymru
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Cymru news
  • Part-time hourly paid - it's not fair! • Rhan amser a delir fesul awr - nid yw'n deg!
  • Workload matters
  • FE national bargaining in Wales
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Cymru branches
  • Social partnership in Wales
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø Northern Ireland
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Northern Ireland branches
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø in England
  • East Midlands region
    • Contact information for the East Midlands regional committee
  • Eastern and home counties region
    • Contact information for the eastern and home counties regional committee
  • London region
    • Contact details for the London regional committee
  • North west region
    • Contact information for the north west regional committee
  • Northern region
    • Contact information for the northern regional committee
  • South region
    • Contact information for the south regional committee
  • South east region
    • Contact information for the south east regional committee
  • South west region
    • Contact information for the south west regional committee
  • West Midlands region
    • Contact information for the West Midlands regional committee
  • Yorkshire and Humberside region
    • Contact information for the Yorkshire and Humberside regional committee

Activists

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• Â鶹¹ÙÍø activist education programme
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    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Congress papers
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  • Conference archive
  • Congress motions database
• Elections
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø UK elections 2024-25
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø election hustings 2025
  • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland elections 2024-25
    • Â鶹¹ÙÍø Scotland Honorary Treasurer and ordinary member vacancies
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