New Labour’s campaign for the hearts and minds of young people in Britain was dealt a heavy blow last week with the publication of a United Nations report on child poverty.
Dundee
Over 200 Dundee University students, lecturers and workers protested on Thursday of last week against a plan to slash over 100 jobs as part of management’s "sustainability review".
Lecturers across Britain have received the ballot papers for the UCU general secretary and national executive positions this week. The ballot runs until 7 March, and lecturers need to keep campaigning throughout the election period.
As ballot papers went out this week for the University and College Union (UCU) national executive positions, candidates supported by UCU Left – including general secretary candidate Roger Kline – were campaigning against creeping privatisation of education.
Over 200 people came to a meeting on Monday to campaign against the government’s attacks on one of the last and most important rights possessed by asylum seekers – the right to free English classes (Esol) and further education courses.
The ballot papers for the election of the general secretary and national executive members of the new UCU lecturers’ union are due to be sent out in two weeks.
In less than four weeks the ballots are due to be sent out to elect the first general secretary and national executive committee of the recently merged University and College Union (UCU).
