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 […]
Campaigners from Save Our North West Green Belt have called for people to object to new planning application for peat extraction on land owned by Peel Holdings before the deadline tomorrow. William Sinclair Horticulture Limited have submitted a revised application to Salford City Council to continue extracting peat for another 15 years, after having its […]
A charity which provides free mental health services and support is facing the prospect of losing 86 per cent of its funding for the next financial year. The board of directors at The Roby are being forced to consider closing unfunded services and manage the impact that budget reduction will have on staffing. In response […]
Employees at Manchester City Council could be the first local authority workforce in the country to be balloted on industrial action, after a resolution advocating action to protect public services was passed at an emergency meeting of the Unite union on 21 January. The development piles pressure on largest union Unison, whose cautious approach 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.
NHS trusts in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Heywood and Middleton have stopped providing 57 types of non-emergency surgery until April as part of their “financial recovery plan” for 2010/11.
