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🚨🚨Stop Fire and Rehire at The Open University! Can't believe a university with a mission for social justice would use this disgraceful tactic against staff Our #OUFamily deserves better! If you care about the OU please sign the petition: chng.it/dRM6pWcrNb via Change.org UK

Good to see launch at #Lab24! Link to it here: ucu.org.uk/article/13731/… Eddie Playfair UCU @vrwedekind @_rachel_brooks Centenary Commission on Adult Education @johannalwaters Ian Mearns Melissa Benn Nadia Whittome MP @MarcellaMilana Nick Stevenson University of Nottingham UCU branch Dr. Nic Dickson @nicmdickson.bsky.social pamela.sammons Right2Learn

Skills England published their first paper. Good skills stuff but minimised lifelong learning to a bit of HE. While this paper really explains the power of lifelong learning. ⁦Jacqui Smith⁩ if you combine both we would have a brilliant LLL policy ucu.org.uk/article/13731/…

Education for equality; education for community; education for democracy… look forward to reading this report on building a public education for 16-18 year olds

Important contribution here by UCU to the argument supporting a renewed approach to lifelong learning. Sorry to miss the launch at #LabourConference2024 however full support for this from The WEA and happy to promote as widely as possible

The biggest platform workers and trade unionist events on platform economy: 👉 strategies to transpose the #PlatformWork directive 👉 identifying emerging sectors and platformization of industrial relationships 👉 algorithmic management ✊United for #DecentWork EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS

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We are deeply concerned at the closure of People's Story. A vital part of Edinburgh's working class history. Our General Secretary will be writing to the Council this weekend to register our protest. We stand ready to work with those who are campaigning to reverse this decision

This looks fascinating! But Haverfordwest isn't a central location, even for Wales.

You couldn't make it up: 'Museum of Neoliberalism to be knocked down for luxury flats' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/museum…

I really hope they are not treated like the Miners our communities never recovered

The shocking decline od prison education. BBC News - Prison education failing young offenders - Ofsted - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“It Was Never Just About Coal” A short Documentary film by The Medway Trade Union Council. Funded by CWU RMT CWU Kent Invicta

I do not consent to the privitisation of the NHS. RT to tell Wes Streeting, Keir Starmer and The Labour Party if you agree. Comment "NOT FOR SALE"

The leader of the 'race science' network that apparently has access to 500k medical records seems also to have links with Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir which runs the NHS Data Platform buff.ly/3NADFXT

Needless to say, Wes Streeting has been pushing hard for further take up of the NHS Data Platform despite the serious concerns many of us have expressed about the award of the contract to a highly political very right wing US spytech firm. digitalhealth.net/2024/06/wes-st…

Hope Rachel Reeves reads, marks and inwardly digests the content! It was a pleasure working with Howard Stevenson Eddie Playfair & Jo Grady on this. UoN Education Centenary Commission on Adult Education Right2Learn Andreas Bieler 🇵🇸 Sharon Clancy Kate Carruthers Thomas Prof Ellen Boeren EPALE - Adult Learning EU FE Week Melissa Benn

.Nottinghamshire Police re the Chinese bell missing from the Arboretum, it may be helpful that I noticed its absence on 18 Jan. I took a photo.