University staff should reject a 2% rise
Amy Gilligan is a researcher and UCU member at Cambridge. This article originally appeared at the Labour blog Left Futures. (pic: UCU strike at Manchester Metropolitan University.)
UCU and EIS members in higher education are currently...
Pedagogy and Politics
As the NUT conference starts, Robin B explains why we have to rescue children from the politicians
We are a year away from the 2015 general election. After four years of Gove, it is tempting...
Panic on the streets of Birmingham?
Andrew N, Birmingham NUT executive member (personal capacity), argues that the left needs to stand against Islamophobes and reject media scapegoating
Photo: Paul Clarke
If you were to believe the headlines in certain Tory papers recently,...
Big business and the NHS: Awkward bedfellows
Gill George discusses how drug company greed means the government has wasted millions on stockpiling medicine that doesn't work
Private companies exist to make a profit for their shareholders. The NHS exists to keep...
UCU marking boycott: Management have called our bluff – we have a choice
Management at universities across the country, including Bath Spa, UWE, Oxford Brooks, Bradford University, UEA and Westminster University, have told staff that they intend to dock 100% of their pay if they participate in...
Nursery workers refuse to be classed as self-employed: worker’s report
The government made tax changes on Sunday 6 April which many employers are using an an excuse to force self-employment on their workers. Phil T works at a care centre for children in west London that is trying precisely that....
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UNISON Higher Education Service Group Elections: Vote for a leadership that fights for you
This week, voting opened in UNISON's Service Group elections. These elections will decide the national executives for each of the seven...
Left lifted by surprise win for Free Education motion at NUS conference
Amy Gilligan from Cambridge University rs21 reports from NUS conference
LEFT ACTIVISTS were happy after a surprise win after a tense NUS conference vote this morning. A motion supporting free education passed, committing the union to...
Interview: Spies, surveillance and Cambridgeshire police
Cambridgeshire police tried to recruit an activist to spy on Unite Against Fascism, UK Uncut and Cambridge Defend Education, according to video evidence which came to light in November last year.
26 March NUT strike round-up
NUT strikes have a tradition of large political demonstrations on strike days and today was no exception.