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Marketisation of universities has led to an education crisis
Higher education staff are now regarded as ‘throwaway’ and are increasingly overworked and demoralised. RUTH HUNT reports
UCU and NUS activists take part in a demonstration over access and quality of higher education
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DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
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SINCE 2010, higher education has been subjected to increased marketisation.
The University and College Union (UCU) has highlighted how some highly qualified academics who would normally have a job “for life” might find their remuneration has been changed to fixed-term, or to payment on an hourly basis with no protection to make plans for the future.
So how do these changes to contract affect staff and in turn impact on students?
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