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Thousands of college and university lecturers will be campaigning today against the growth of zero-hours contracts and a lack of employment rights in the education sector.
Zero-hours contracts mean that employees can be called in to work when bosses need them and left unpaid when their skills are not required.
The University and College Union (UCU) day of action aims to highlight how further and higher education are overly-reliant on casualised staff.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE