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Lecturers in the UCU union have voted for industrial action in defence of their USS final salary pensions scheme.

Barnsley College lecturers in the UCU union will strike on Thursday of next week in defence of their branch secretary.

UCU senior branch officers met on Friday of last week to outline a plan for industrial action. Ballot results for action in defence of the USS pension scheme are expected on Wednesday.

UCU and Unison union members protested against job cuts and attacks on English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol) provision at Westminster Kingsway in central London on Monday of this week.

UCU union members have voted to back a boycott of the Institute for Learning (IFL) in a referendum.

Outbursts of anger from students and academics greeted the plans of philosopher AC Grayling to establish the New College of the Humanities (NCH) - a new for-profit private university with fees of £18,000.

UCU union members struck at Barnsley College on Monday of this week. It was their second successful strike in the battle to save jobs.

‘Everyone has the right to a decent pension scheme’ Sally Hunt, UCU general secretary

Some 200 lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley College struck against job cuts on Friday of last week. They plan another four days of strikes this month and next.

Lecturers at Barnsley College were set to strike on Friday of this week to stop compulsory redundancies. The UCU union members voted for strikes by 87 percent.

UCU union members in further education colleges are to ballot on a proposed deal on the annual fees for compulsory membership of the Institute for Learning.

At this year’s UCU union congress Sally Hunt, the general secretary, launched her bid for re-election.