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University workers took part in a wave of strikes across last week as part of a national campaign over pay.

Workers at the University of Sussex are on strike today, Wednesday, demanding equal pay and an end to casual contracts.

Tory cuts, tests and academisation threaten schools, but teachers are ready to fight, says Sadie Robinson

Workers At 100 Wood Street corporate offices in the City of London financial district are on all-out strike.

London Metropolitan University (LMU) workers and supporters met on Tuesday of last week to discuss the fight to stop 395 job cuts. Bosses have targeted UCU union reps for redundancy.

The pay fight in higher education was a key debate at the UCU union's annual congress in Liverpool last week. UCU members in universities held a two-day national strike last month for a pay rise and an end to pay inequality.

The Tory assault on education, and resistance to it, dominated the UCU union’s annual congress in Liverpool last week.

Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement moved one step closer to governing the capital Rome on Monday.

UCU lecturers’ union members will meet for the union’s annual congress in Liverpool this week amid a Tory assault on education.

NUT union members across England are balloting for strikes over the impact of the government’s education white paper and funding cuts.

Labour-run Durham County Council voted last week to sack 2,700 teaching assistants (TAs) and rehire them on worse contracts with up to 23 percent lower pay.

The Tories’ new education white paper proposes cuts to working class access to universities. It gives business more power and will trash higher education (HE).