2 June 2010
University and Colleges Union: Congress votes to fight
Union (UCU) annual congress have voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action to save jobs, with action expected to take place in the last week of September 2010, writes Edmund Schluessel, Cardiff University UCU, personal capacity.
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5 May 2010
In brief
Celanese Derby: After just three years of ownership, Celanese Corporation have announced the total closure of their plant at Spondon, finishing the last 464 jobs of a once 20,000 strong Derby workforce, writes Graham Lewis, Long Eaton trades council, personal capacity.
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19 January 2010
No business in our education
Comment: I am a student who enrolled on the 'Stepping Stones Employability Skills' course at Leeds City College, Park Lane Campus...
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30 June 2009
Crisis looms in FE colleges
National fight to defend education: FURTHER EDUCATION (FE) colleges across the country are facing a major crisis over the next months and years, writes Paula Mitchell.
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6 May 2009
Keep fighting for further education funding
Wales: Unison and other campus unions in Gorseinon college Swansea are once again having to campaign against the effects of funding cuts, writes Ronnie Job, Unison rep Gorseinon college, personal capacity.
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22 April 2009
Wales FE funding: Victory, but keep the champagne on ice
The Welsh Assembly has performed a partial u-turn on Further Education (FE) funding in Wales, coming up with an additional £8.93 million in an announcement on 15 April, writes Ron Job, Unison steward Gorseinon college, personal capacity.
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25 March 2009
Wales: United battle needed to stop college cuts
Monday morning and the staff of our college gather to hear the principal explain that management will be seeking to identify £800,000 of savings by the end of the academic year (July), writes Ronnie Job, Unison steward, Gorseinon college, personal capacity.
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18 March 2009
No compulsory redundancies at Gorseinon college!
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11 March 2009
No college cuts in Wales
Trade union members of Unison and UCU at Neath/Port Talbot college staged a protest outside the main gate on 4 March to highlight the damage that will be caused by the Welsh Assembly's £1.6 million cut in its budget, writes Alec Thraves.
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12 October 2006
Campaigning in the schools and colleges
"Can I get other people I know involved too?" asked one of the college students who we met at Southwark college. At other colleges where International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Students have been meeting, writes Ben Robinson ISR national co-ordimator...
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