28 March 2018

Liverpool Uni staff set to fight 220 job losses

The University of Liverpool has announced 220 redundancies. Vice-Chancellor Janet Beer is also head of Universities UK, the body trying to carry out colossal cuts to university workers' pensions, writes Hugh Caffrey, North West Socialist Party.

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14 March 2018

Strike continues: set dates for next national action

University strikers have determinedly fought on with their pensions strike

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3 January 2018

UCU members balloting for action on pension cuts

Anger is approaching boiling point at plans to do away with guaranteed benefits

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3 January 2018

Mobilise against rip-off executive pay

Higher education: In the new year honours, five 'fat cat' current and former vice-chancellors were rewarded for their 'services to education'

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13 December 2017

Uni market 'failure', two-year degrees - end cuts, scrap fees!

Less than a third of higher education students think their course offers value for money according to the National Audit Office. Its chief says universities would be accused of "mis-selling" if they were banks. This comes as no surprise!

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29 November 2017

Brighton Uni lecturers strike against job cuts

A lunchtime walkout preceded a full day of action, after a magnificent 85% vote in favour of striking against forced redundancies

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11 October 2017

Nasty party imploding...drive out the Tories

The prime minister has gone from "strong and stable" to spluttering and stuttering in the space of a few short months.

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27 September 2017

Fight for free education

Scrap tuition fees: Tuition fees can be beaten. Chancellor Phillip Hammond's announcement that he will consider lowering them in the next Tory budget is an indication of his government's enormous weakness

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30 August 2017

May's lies about foreign students exposed

One of Theresa May's racist immigration myths has been exposed

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19 April 2017

Joint struggle can stop tuition fee interest hike

Millions of students and former students will be affected by an increase in interest rates on their student loans

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12 April 2017

Action against cuts at Solent University

Management at Solent University is rattled and failing to cover up its plans for extensive cuts and redundancies. Already staff in the UCU and Unison unions have voted 92% in favour of 'no confidence' in the vice-chancellor, who is paid £300,000 a year.

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15 March 2017

Unison HE conference: Delegates give the bureaucracy a lesson in democracy

Unison delegates to the higher education conference on 2 March reminded the service group executive (SGE) who's in charge by defeating them on a number of questions.

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22 February 2017

Stop the student loan sell-off - scrap all fees

The Tories are once again trying to privatise student debt.

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11 January 2017

May slams 'economic inequalities' Tory policies created

Unelected Tory prime minister Theresa May has delivered a speech to the Charity Commission in which she denounces injustices within our society.

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7 December 2016

Unison members barely earning the living wage in some universities

As terms and conditions throughout the UK are being chipped away, incomes are tightening and security in the workplace is in jeopardy, Unison members voted in September to decide whether or not to strike over the 1.1% pay offer that was made to most members.

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22 November 2016

Fight back to save education!

Up to 15,000 students, education workers and trade unionists marched in London on 19 November

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16 November 2016

Students and workers unite and fight!

The march on 19 November is the first joint national demo by the NUS and UCU since 2010

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9 November 2016

Build the education fightback

Join the #Nov19 national student march: Students have suffered greatly under brutal privatisation and austerity measures.

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26 October 2016

Unison higher education seminar points no way forward over pay

The Unison higher education sector seminar took place in Brighton 20-22 October. The key issue for union members was the decision by the service group executive (SGE), by the narrowest of margins, not to call strike action over the 2016 pay claim, despite the fact that 55% of those voting were in favour.

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12 October 2016

South Africa: The battle for free education

University students have resumed their battle from last year against tuition fees hikes and for free education. In doing so, they have taken on South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) political establishment. Workers and Socialist Party (Wasp, CWI South Africa) activists explain what's at stake.

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