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Around 1,000 people took to the streets against Tory education cuts in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, last Saturday.

UCU Left candidate Jo McNeill won an impressive 41 percent vote in the union’s general secretary election. Incumbent Sally Hunt won with 59 percent.

Workers braved stormy picket lines at the College of North West London (CNWL) today, Thursday, as they struck to defend their union rep.

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UCU Left candidates are fighting to win big votes in the lecturers’ union.

Elections are underway in the UCU union, where UCU Left candidate Jo McNeill is challenging Sally Hunt to become the union’s next general secretary.

Ballot papers will go out this week for elections in the UCU union—and the left is winning support.

Lords voted against the government yesterday, Monday, to support an amendment to the Higher Education and Research Bill.

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Students and lecturers marched together in central London today, Saturday, in defence of education.

Lecturers at Edinburgh College have voted to strike over the unjustified sacking of a colleague and the victimisation of union rep Penny Gower who represented him.

Students were set to join a march in London this Saturday on a national demo called by the NUS student’s union and the UCU union.