MMU denies racism claim

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Unison, the largest trade union in the UK, has claimed that Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) has an "institutionally racist" culture and that the management of the university have failed to take any action to deal with this despite receiving repeated warnings over the last five years. The university has responded by pointing out that in 2004 the Higher Education Funding Council for England commended its race equality procedures as "exemplary". MMU currently has seven separate discrimination charges from its staff pending at a Manchester employment tribunal.

Legal issues & crime, International Affairs, Legal/Government Regulation, Racial Oppression, Company legal issue, Cases, Employment discrimination, Race discrimination, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Soas disrupted by protest over loss of two librarians

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The School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK, faces severe disruption following the escalation of a protest about the redundancies of specialist librarians Sue Small and Fujiko Kobayashi. The two had managed the school's special collection covering China, Japan and Korea and in protest at their redundancy 18 of the school's senior academics, including the heads of department of Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies, have resigned from all roles not part of their contractual duties.

College teachers, College faculty, Demonstrations and protests, College librarians, Academic librarians

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Overwork is rife, say lecturers

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A survey conducted by lecturers' union Natfhe in conjunction with the Teacher Support Network charity has revealed that 69% of the 1,138 lecturers polled stated that they worked an average of a minimum of 11 hours/week of unpaid overtime. The survey also revealed that about 94% of lecturers believed that an excessive workload had affected their personal lives, while 87% stated that their workload negatively impacted on the quality of support they could offer students.

Services information, Services, Surveys, Lecturers

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