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Thanks to the National Tertiary Education Union of Australia (NTEU) for writing to President Uribe of Colombia calling for a fair trial for Dr Beltran. The NTEU’s letter, copied to Education International and the minister for Foreign Affairs in Australia, notes that Dr Beltran is a prisoner of conscience and calls for independent observers [...] Dear colleague The University and College Union has invited an imprisoned academic, Dr Miguel Angel Beltran, to address our Congress which takes place in Manchester in a month’s time, from 30 May to 1 June. In fact, Dr Beltran is expected to be in court in Bogota at that time, after a year in [...] Help ensure a fair trial for Dr Beltrán in Colombia On 22nd May 2009 Dr Miguel Angel Beltrán Villegas, a Colombian academic studying in Mexico, was detained by the Mexican immigration authorities at the request of the Colombian Government. He was flown back to Bogota where, the following day, he was charged with the crimes [...] As the general election campaign begins in Britain, a new UCU report has warned that both the ’New Labour’ government and the Conservative opposition are united in promoting policies that will further marketise and privatise the higher education system in the UK. The report warns that both parties are peddling a vision that will import [...] The president of Essex University UCU has written an account of how his branch campaigned successfully to stop a the setting up of a joint venture between the University and INTO University Partnerships. This is a fascinating and extremely useful account and we hope it helps other union branches around the world who want to campaign against [...] |
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