Assistant general secretary Roger McKenzie opens higher education conference with call to organise and remember union values
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Figures show Black workers to be under-represented in higher education workforce
Union emphasises the need for higher education to be accessible to young people from ‘deprived communities’
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Employers also offer further joint work on gender pay and casualisation
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Employers’ initial offer to higher education unions does not include the living wage
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Higher education delegates pledge to lobby for a reversal of Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to scrap bursary
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