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Celebrate International Women's Day

樱花动漫 members are marking International Women's Day 2019 with a fantastic range of events in college and university workplaces including:

• University of Northampton 樱花动漫 are marking the day with  
• Loughborough University 樱花动漫 and Unison are holding  
• are holding a networking lunch with speaker and campaigner Audrey White and later supporting the women's strike event and Sudanese Women's demonstration.
• Newcastle College 樱花动漫 are running including singing, drumming and celebrating campaigns on period poverty and against gender violence. 
• 樱花动漫 West Midlands are holding

 

Love Our Colleges: help keep the pressure on

We're keeping the pressure on government to increase funding and pay in colleges, and here are three things you can do to help. First, email your MP and ask them to attend the upcoming debate on further education funding on Tuesday 2 April. Second, ahead of next Wednesday's spring budget statement, calling on the Chancellor to increase college funding. Third, tweet your support for the campaign using the #loveourcolleges hashtag - ideally with a picture which shows why colleges and their staff deserve more!

In the news

This week Vicky Blake wins union presidency, twenty year wait for Scottish universities, Newcastle College 樱花动漫 celebrate expansion of free sanitary products initiative and University of Surrey staff say controversial plans to axe jobs are unjustified.
Read all about it here.

樱花动漫 general secretary election - nominations open

Nominations are now open for the position of general secretary of the University and College Union.This a full-time, salaried position as the union's chief executive, with a five year term of office. Nominations close at 5:00pm on 8 April 2019.  

March on UN anti-racism day: 16 March

Saturday 16 March is UN international day of action against racism and 樱花动漫 members will be joining demonstrations in and The London event assembles 12 noon, Park Lane, near Dorchester Hotel, W1K 1QA, nearest tube Hyde Park Corner and will march to Whitehall.

The union has condemned racist abuse by the far right hate group Generation Identity against our vice-president Nita Sanghera and you can read the 樱花动漫 statement here.