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Further Education pay The UCU union’s further education committee (FEC) heard how devastating cuts of up to £340 million are due to hit the sector at its meeting on Friday of last week.

Lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley college have suspended planned strike action after college management agreed to negotiate over proposed changes to job descriptions that would lower lecturers’ grades and pay.

A damning report into the recording of student numbers at London Metropolitan University has found that management knew of incorrect data regarding student numbers as early as 2004.

Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has never been at the top of teachers' Christmas card lists.

Up to 300 workers and students from Leeds University lobbied a meeting of the university council on Thursday of last week as managers discussed plans to make £35 million worth of cuts.

Teachers in the NUT union at Norlington School, east London, are continuing their fight after three days of strike action.

Teachers in one of Coventry’s biggest secondary schools struck on Friday of last week in protest over rising workloads.

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at the University of Westminster are set to strike on Friday of this week in a dispute over back pay.

Lecturers at Glyndwr University in Wrexham have voted to strike in support of a sacked lecturer.

Two hundred members of the lecturers UCU union at Barnsley College struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

Teachers in the NUT union at Norlington School in Waltham Forest, east London, began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week.

Teachers, parents and children across Britain are stepping up activities against the government’s hated Sats tests.