Revealed: How cuts at the Open University are being kept from view
We speak to activists challenging the changes on the ground.
We speak to activists challenging the changes on the ground.
Lecturers’ strikes brought universities to a halt for most of the last month. But what started as a last resort turned into a movement for the Free University.
“Our staff deserve dignity and fair treatment, not poverty in retirement”, say student protestors.
Higher education bosses are playing games with the public, as well as the lecturers losing out.
And just 2% think university staff are to blame for the industrial action, a YouGov poll found this morning.
University heads are failing to even admit the pension strikes are happening. It’s no wonder people talk of a crisis of leadership in our university sector.
The divide in higher education is getting starker. Huge strikes are on the cards unless something is done about it – and soon, writes UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt.
Nearly four in five believe university bosses should not be allowed on the remuneration committees which keep bumping up their pay.
Ahead of a key TUC debate on single market membership at Congress, UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt sets out why unions should get behind freedom of movement.
More MPs have resigned from Bath’s advisory council over sky-high pay. Universities should be forced to come clean over Vice Chancellors’ soaring salaries.