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Queens University pushing for 150 redundancies

News emerged today of plans by Queens University in Belfast to make 150 members of academic staff redundant.

University and college bosses plan job cuts in higher education

UCU

The University and Colleges Union has revealed that university and college bosses will not be making them any new pay offer and that many are seeking job cuts.

Unrest over academies expansion

As 70 failing schools join the 310 already on the list of schools which will be or already are now operating as academies, coalitions of parents in Brighton and Hove, Ipswich and Sheffield are challenging moves to switch them over.

Queens University placing excessive targets on probationary staff

QUB

The University and College Union at Queens University Belfast is highlighting the excessive demands being placed on workers currently in probationary periods.

UCU to ballot on strike action at Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent

The University and College Union branch at Nottingham Trent University is to ballot its members on strike action following the formal de-recognition of the local UCU branch by university managers.

Nottingham Trent University de-recognises academics union

Nottingham Trent University

Lecturers at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) warned today that they may take strike action over an ongoing row about how the university negotiates with the branch.

Queens University pursuing compulsory redundancies

Queens University Belfast

Queens University in Belfast is for the first time ever attempting to make staff compulsorily redundant. Following a meeting with UCU, these plans were dropped from the proposal to be tabled at a later date.

Lecturers to join teachers' strike

College lecturers in England have voted to strike on Thursday 24 April in support of a demand to bring their pay up to that of schoolteachers.

Academics reject government anti-extremists plan

Lecturers have voted unanimously to boycott government plans to tackle 'extremism' on college campuses.