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UK universities have been rocked in the last month by 40% cuts to public funding, proposals to raise student tuition fees to £9000, to completely marketise the funding base for many subjects and, predictably, to make it easier for US for-profit companies to expand to fill the gaps. Firstly, the Browne review recommended removing the [...] A report from Marco Broccati, FLC CGIL (Italy) In Italy, things are going from bad to worse. This Government has cut funding in every public branch. Schools, Universities and public institutions of research have been the first victims. We had, all in all, a cut of about 10 billions euros in 3 years, which [...] 22,000 staff risk losing their jobs if the government presses ahead with plans to cut 25% more from already slashed HE budgets, according to UCU research published in July: http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4736&from=4725&start=11 This comes at the same time as news that 200,000 young people will miss out on a university place this year as a result [...] Many thanks to those unions who sent messages of protest to the Vice Chancellor of London Metropolitan University and circulated our call to ‘greylist’ the university. The following update went out to all our members at the end of last week. Support for London Met campaign as greylisting continues to bite: The campaign to [...] Please find below a letter from UCU’s General Secretary Sally Hunt to all signatories of the international agreement and a request for your help. Jonathan Dear colleague Support the “Greylisting” of London Metropolitan University UCU has instituted the greylisting of London Metropolitan University in protest at plans to cut 550 jobs. This means that [...] |
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