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  • 8 November 2019

    Sixty universities to be hit with eight days of strikes this month Sixty UK universities will be hit with eight days of strike action from Monday 25 November to…

  • 4 November 2019

    Strikes scheduled to start on Tuesday 5 November at Nottingham College have been suspended at an eleventh hour meeting of 51¸£Àû members at the college. Staff  were…

  • 1 November 2019

    51¸£Àû members back strikes over both pensions and pay and conditions 51¸£Àû members working in UK universities have backed strike action in ballots over both pensions…

  • 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"…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 5 July 2019

    Ruskin College in Oxford has been accused of trade union victimisation following a string of disciplinary and redundancy threats directed at 51¸£Àû members. Three…