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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…

  • 21 June 2019

    ¹ÏÉñÍø has today officially censured Trinity College, Cambridge after it decided to pull out of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) . At a meeting of the…

  • 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…

  • 20 June 2019

    Despite calls to improve transparency around senior pay at universities, four-fifths of institutions (81%) still allowed their vice-chancellor to attend meetings…

  • 14 June 2019

    Strike ballot at Sandwell College as row over sacked lecturer escalates The row at Sandwell College over the "heavy-handed" sacking of ¹ÏÉñÍø activist Dave Muritu…

  • 13 June 2019

    ¹ÏÉñÍø has said that improvements in student satisfaction are built on the goodwill of staff, and action on workload and job security is needed to ensure that the…

  • 7 June 2019

    ¹ÏÉñÍø warns of September strike ballot over USS pensions Universities risk prompting a wave of industrial action across UK campuses later this year if they do not…

  • 1 June 2019

    ¹ÏÉñÍø congress 2019 It was a busy bank holiday weekend in Harrogate for delegates at ¹ÏÉñÍø's annual congress. The three-day conference covered a whole host of policy…

  • 30 May 2019

    Members of ¹ÏÉñÍø at the University of Portsmouth will be staging a protest on Monday 3 June over plans to cut 65 jobs. Staff will be demonstrating from 8.00am outside…

  • 30 May 2019

    Responding to the funding review from Philip Augar, ¹ÏÉñÍø said that the review had missed an opportunity to explore radical alternatives to the status quo and risked…