Members of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents lecturers and teaching staff in Higher Education, have voted in favour of strike action over jobs, pay and pensions.
Workers, students, community campaigners, the unemployed and pensioners will take to the streets of Manchester this Saturday to protest against cuts to services that the council is set to decide on next week.
Aaron Porter’s position as President of the National Union of Students (NUS) looked increasingly untenable today after he was accosted and chased by hundreds of students from the University of Manchester campus to the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), where he took refuge behind a police cordon.
A national demonstration against the cuts in Further and Higher Education, youth unemployment and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance will take place this Saturday 29th January 2011 in Manchester. The National Union of Students (NUS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) have called for a protest march from the University of Manchester to […]
Students in sixth-form and further education (FE) colleges around the country are to stage a walk-out this Wednesday 26 January as part of the ongoing struggle to save Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and resist cuts to education.
Manchester students staged a flash-mob outside the constituency office of Cheadle Hulme Liberal Democrat MP Mark Hunter, in protest at his decision to vote in favour for a rise in tuition fees – despite an election pledge not to.
The University of Salford is suing a former lecturer for allegedly publishing a satirical publication in what he describes as an attempt to “silence opposition” to its policies. The action could have serious implications for bloggers using WordPress, after the Californian webhosting company passed on personally-identifying information.
