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The fight to save jobs at the University of Leeds has led to a massive rise in membership of the UCU union.

The Anti Academies Alliance (AAA) launched a national education "road show" at its annual general meeting in London on Saturday of last week.

Students and lecturers across the country are preparing to march on parliament next week against cuts in higher education.

Workers at the University of Leeds are balloting for strikes against a programme of cuts that would slash 10 percent of the university budget and impose compulsory redundancies.

Over 90 workers and students from universities across London and beyond met at King’s College on Tuesday 15 December to discuss ways of giving a united focus to the fight to defend jobs and education. Activists came a variety of institutions including UCL, Westminster University, Westminster College, London College of Communication, Tower Hamlets College, Queen Mary University, Goldsmiths, London Metropolitan University and Sussex University.

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Elections are coming up for the national executive committee of the UCU lecturers’ union. They come at a time when we are facing the biggest onslaught on post-16 education in decades.

As if the crisis in education wasn’t bad enough, business secretary Peter Mandelson announced millions of pounds worth of new cuts just days before Christmas.

Teachers will hold a formal ballot on whether to boycott hated Sats tests after the NUT union last week announced that 75 percent of those voting in an indicative ballot want action.

Teachers at Islington Arts and Media School in north London last week asked their NUT union to ballot them for industrial action if management doesn’t agree that teachers should only "rarely" be asked to cover for absent colleagues.

Teachers at Weston Favell school in Northampton struck on Thursday of last week in protest at plans to turn the school into an academy.