31 January 2018

University workers' walkout for decent pensions

UCU members in 61 universities will be taking strike action in February and March

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3 January 2018

Leeds college pay protests

Following successful pay protests in November at Leeds City College further education unions UCU and Unison decided to keep the momentum going in December and planned repeat action

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6 September 2017

College workers ballot for action in Nottingham

Unison and UCU further education union branches at newly merged Nottingham college are in dispute with management over redundancy and reorganisation

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30 August 2017

Community and artists campaign to save Todmorden College

The town of Todmorden has had a community college since the 1950s - now slated for closure

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16 June 2017

Militant mood against college job cuts

On the day before the general election, dozens of workers at Reading College held a protest

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17 May 2017

Corbyn's alternative for young people

Free education, EMA, £10/hr, no zero-hours: Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto has been greeted with enormous enthusiasm by working class people but especially by young people.

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15 February 2017

Socialist Students: growing, brimming with confidence

Socialist Students conference showcased a growing organisation

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15 February 2017

Resist Trump and his rotten policies: why I'm walking out on 'Day X'

I'll be joining students from schools, colleges and universities across Britain in walking out on Day X - the day that President Trump first sets foot in Britain

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1 February 2017

Socialist Students: conference Saturday and Sunday, 11-12 February 2017

Socialist Students conference is now less than two weeks away. This promises to be a hugely exciting event. Socialist Students will be hosting Monica Caballero - the deputy general secretary of the Sindicato de Estudiantes (student union in Spain) and a leader of the mass movement against education attacks in Spain. The Sunday morning session will include a debate with Conservative Future.

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16 November 2016

Students and workers unite and fight!

The march on 19 November is the first joint national demo by the NUS and UCU since 2010

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5 October 2016

Winning a new generation of students

Campaigning in the new term at colleges and universities has generated renewed interest

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21 September 2016

New Tory attacks on Higher Education - a programme to fight back

Raising tuition fees, creation of for-profit universities, as well as the widely criticised teaching excellence framework, are all part of making higher education part of the marketplace.

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21 September 2016

Socialist Students: setting out our stall...

Reports from Socialist Students activities as schools and colleges go back.

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7 September 2016

Workplace news in brief

Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. London bus stoppage, Scotland FE strike.

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4 May 2016

NUS conference: mood to fight education cuts

A growing mood of anger was reflected at this year's NUS conference in the leadership elections and some of the motions passed.

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23 March 2016

Stop academies onslaught

Unions must organise to defend education: A seething anger permeated throughout school staffrooms when the government announced that all schools in England must become academies

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15 March 2016

Striking to save sixth form colleges

Members of the NUT in sixth form colleges are on strike today against funding cuts, mergers and closures

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9 March 2016

Thousands to strike in defence of sixth form colleges

Thousands of teachers will take strike action and hold a national protest in central London on 15 March against cuts to funding for sixth form colleges.

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17 February 2016

Socialist Students conference 2016: Delegates enthusiastic and confident

100 students from over 30 institutions were represented

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27 January 2016

Teachers need national strategy for a national struggle

Teachers across the country are demonstrating a willingness to fight for, and more importantly win, on pay and conditions with a flurry of schools taking strike action over the last few months. But as a strategy, school-by-school is not going to resolve the problems for all teachers.

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