Univ. Amsterdam lecturers win contract concessions, call off grading strike

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Ambedkar University faculty protest against Vice Chancellor over unaddressed grievances

Faculty members of the Delhi government-run Dr. B.R. “The V-C has not given an audience to the faculty association despite repeated requests since last September,” an office-bearer of the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi Faculty Association or AUDFA told The Hindu. “The continuing monkey menace at the KG campus also contributes to a non-conducive, and rather intimidating work atmosphere …

Delhi University Campus Faculty Members Letter Staff

6 months, 1 week ago

Members of the Association of University Teachers stage protest, detained

The Hindu

The Association of University Teachers staged a protest in front of the Regional Joint Director, Directorate of College Education, highlighting the non-payment of salary for the last seven months to several teachers and employees in 10 colleges that were once constituent colleges to the Bharathidasan University and were converted into government colleges in 2019. Following confusion over who will bear …

College Detained Salaries

7 months, 1 week ago

Amsterdam university cancels classes after violence erupted at a pro-Palestinian rally

Associated Press

THE HAGUE — The University of Amsterdam canceled classes Tuesday and shut buildings for two days after the latest pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive. “They called in the police after people wouldn’t remove their face coverings but the police came in balaclavas,” political science professor Enzo Rossio told The Associated Press, describing Monday’s events. According to …

Europe Amsterdam University Student Protests Israel Demonstrations Violence Erupted

7 months, 1 week ago

Amsterdam University shuts for two days after more protests

Dutch News

The University of Amsterdam will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday in an effort to head off further trouble after riot police were again called in to clear protesters on Monday. The university authorities said in a statement on Monday evening that they could not “take responsibility for the safety of everyone on campus”. The UvA authorities said they were …

7 months, 1 week ago

University of Amsterdam no longer negotiating with protesters

NL Times

The University of Amsterdam will no longer enter into discussions with activists after new disturbances at the university yesterday, Geert ten Dam, chairman of the UvA executive board, told NOS. “We will continue the discussions, but we will do so with our own people and within our normal, regular consultation structure,” Ten Dam told the broadcaster. The board wasn’t present, …

Students University Dam Uva Building Ten Dam University Of Amsterdam

1 year, 2 months ago

Contractual university teachers await regularisation of jobs

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The conclusion of the term of yet another government without resolving their issues has left 1,445 university-level contract teaching staff, who have worked for nearly 30 years, mired in uncertainty. B. Rajesh Khanna, a faculty member of JNTU-Hyderabad and convener of Telangana All Universities Contract Teachers Association, said: "We know that our recruitment will also face legal problems but …

Contract Recruitment Teachers Telangana State Khanna Brs

1 year, 2 months ago

Contract teaching staff on strike for 20 days, now seek regularisation

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The 1,445 university contract teachers who have been on strike across the 12 universities in the State for more than 20 days now are a worried lot that their demands will be set aside once the election code kicks in for the Telangana assembly polls. Most sections of the society have received some benefit or the other after the …

Contract Recruitment Teachers Telangana Faculty State Ugc

1 year, 2 months ago

Dutch universities raise concerns over Cabinet's plan to reduce English instruction

NL Times

The Cabinet drafted a bill in July aiming to reduce English instruction in higher education in the Netherlands. In July, outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf drafted a bill to combat what the Cabinet considers to be an excess of internationalization of Dutch higher education. In addition, he noted that most international students do not stay in the Netherlands to work …

Education International Dutch English Students Netherlands International Students

1 year, 2 months ago

Universities told to ‘work at pace’ to issue grades delayed by marking boycott

The Independent

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Students Boycott Scottish Universities Degree Classifications

1 year, 3 months ago

1,440 contract employees denied regularisation in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: The state government has regularised all contract employees working in government degree, junior, and polytechnic colleges. However, more than 1,440 contract employees who have been working in 12 state universities for decades have been denied regularisation by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. Assistant professors from the universities staged a protest at Arts College on the Osmania University campus on …

Contract State Professor

1 year, 3 months ago

1,400 contractual JNTUH faculty demand regularisation, warn of indefinite stir

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Close to 200 contract faculty members of JNTUH have been holding a lunch-hour protest since Monday, demanding the regularisation of services of 1,400 contractual faculty members from 12 universities across the state. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, B. Rajesh Khanna, faculty member and convener of Telangana All Universities Contract Teachers Association, said, "We have been working tirelessly for years. The …

Faculty Demand

1 year, 3 months ago

Pay contract employees, teachers in time: Revanth to KCR

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao had promised permanent jobs to contract employees and junior lecturers, who had played a major role in the statehood movement. The contract lecturers, whose services were regularised in May, haven’t received their April wages. The Congress party will stand by the contract lecturers and ready an action plan for their cause, Reddy said. Taking …

Contract Employees

1 year, 3 months ago

Fresh strikes by university staff announced in long running pay dispute

The Independent

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Action Strike Pay Union Members Staff Universities

1 year, 4 months ago

Universities to be hit with more strikes before end of September, says union

The Independent

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Pay Union End Sign Universities Ucu Ucea

1 year, 4 months ago

Lecturers in the UK refuse to mark exams in labor dispute, leaving thousands unable to graduate

Associated Press

LONDON — Hafsa Yusuf was supposed to graduate last week. But just two weeks before the big day, Queen Mary University of London sent her an email saying she couldn’t graduate because of industrial action taken by academic staff across the U.K. Lecturers at some 140 universities have refused to mark exam papers and coursework, in an escalation of a …

Students Dispute University Pay College Mark Queen Mary

1 year, 4 months ago

Lecturers in the UK refuse to mark exams in labor dispute, leaving thousands unable to graduate

The Independent

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Students Dispute University Pay College Mark Queen Mary

1 year, 7 months ago

Dutch politicians may soon ban most short-term rental contracts for student rooms

NL Times

Private landlords will no longer be allowed to offer student rooms for rent with a short lease of one or two years. Members of Parliament sitting in the Tweede Kamer are expected to adopt an amendment proposed by coalition party D66 and opposition party SP that would push the restriction forward. Campus contracts will also remain intact, where rental contracts …

Contracts Student Parliament Rental Campus Contracts Soon Ban Rental Contracts

1 year, 7 months ago

Schools face disruption as teachers in England strike in pay dispute

The Independent

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Education England Action Teachers Strike Pay Schools

1 year, 8 months ago

"Internationalization" at the University of Amsterdam needs to stop, says student union

NL Times

Amsterdam student union ASVA said it wants to enter into discussions with the leadership of the University of Amsterdam about the influx of international students, and in particular about what it called the "anglicization" of the Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme, Human Geography and Planning. The union said it does not consider further internationalization to be wise at the moment, because it …

Dutch English Students Student Program Bachelor Fisher

1 year, 9 months ago

Amsterdam students hand out free sandwiches in protest against lunchroom prices

NL Times

University of Amsterdam students are handing out free sandwiches in the Roeterseiland canteen in protest against the high lunchroom prices. The demonstrators, united in the name Antikantine, are handing out sandwiches all week long and getting a lot of support from their fellow students. I really can’t afford 6 euros for a lunch meal,” one student said to the broadcaster. …

Students Uva Lunchroom Prices

1 year, 10 months ago

Student groups call for action on international student numbers

Dutch News

Student organisations have added their voices to calls for a temporary brake on international student numbers, ahead of the publication of new government measures next month. International students now account for 40% of first years and this is having an impact on the quality of degree courses, the LSVB and ISO told news website Nu.nl. On Wednesday MPs called on …

Student Iso

1 year, 10 months ago

Student groups call for action on international student numbers

Dutch News

Student organisations have added their voices to calls for a temporary brake on international student numbers, ahead of the publication of new government measures next month. International students now account for 40% of first years and this is having an impact on the quality of degree courses, the LSVB and ISO told news website Nu.nl. On Wednesday MPs called on …

Student Iso

1 year, 11 months ago

Schoolchildren could face return of 'lockdown-learning' as NEU reveals strike dates

Daily Mail

The Education Secretary has hit out at teachers in England and Wales who plan to go on strike as millions of pupils face being plunged back into 'lockdown-style learning'. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has hit out at teachers in England and Wales who plan to go on strike as tens of thousands of pupils now face being plunged back into …

Education England Wales London Children Teachers Strike

1 year, 11 months ago

Strike vote by teachers fails to reach 50% meaning walkout plans fail

Daily Mail

A teaching union was last night dealt a humiliating blow after it failed to get enough votes to support a walkout. Just 42 per cent of the primary and secondary staff balloted by NASUWT turned out to vote in what has been described by MPs as a ‘win for parents and pupils’. The union said it remained in dispute with …

Union Vote Nasuwt Reach 50

2 years ago

High school students have 2 to 4 hours of canceled lessons per week

NL Times

Secondary school students in the Netherlands have an average of between two and four hours of canceled lessons every week due to the teacher shortage, Trouw reports based on a study done with Investico and parent organization Ouders & Onderwijs. Over 500 parents calculated the lesson cancellations via their child’s school app for the last two weeks of September and …

2 years, 2 months ago

Universities could come to a ‘complete standstill’ as lecturers vote to strike

The Telegraph

Lecturers have threatened to “bring every university to a complete standstill” after tens of thousands of union members voted to strike over pay and pensions. They know their power and are ready to take back what is theirs from a sector raking in tens of billions of pounds.” The latest vote comes as three teaching unions - the National Education …

Action University Strike Pay Union Vote Members

2 years, 10 months ago

AP teachers demand 27 per cent fitment, revision of HRA

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Government teachers are chalking out an action plan to press for their major demands like 27 per cent fitment, same as the interim relief, an upward revision of HRA with 12 per cent minimum slab, abolition of Contributory Pension Scheme and gratuity. The teachers claim that they have support for their demands from nearly nine lakh teachers, contract and …

Teachers Prc Demand 27

2 years, 10 months ago

Students protest in Amsterdam for more loan compensation

NL Times

Students from across the country held a demonstration Saturday in Amsterdam’s Museumplein to receive higher compensation for the education loan system, which the government is currently phasing out. The Dutch Student Union and FNV Young & United calculate that the one billion euro total amounts to an additional 1,000 to 2,000 euros per person. The unions' goal in protesting is …

Loan Cabinet Grant Student Unions Students Receive

3 years ago

A'dam students frustrated by university's insistence on in-person exams despite lockdown

NL Times

Despite the hard lockdown implemented on Sunday, thousands of students across the Netherlands still have to go to their university this week to write an exam. According to the regional broadcaster, some University of Amsterdam faculties have up to 1,000 students gathered in a building to write exams. Political science student Erik Sjoers gathered over 3,300 signatures on a petition …

Exams Students Student Uva Nh Nieuws Write Exam

3 years ago

Universities could offer students fee refunds amid strike disruption – watchdog

The Independent

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Action Students University Strike Pay Pensions Universities

3 years, 1 month ago

UC lecturer strike averted as union hails tentative agreement as its ‘best contract’ ever

LA Times

A massive two-day strike by University of California lecturers that threatened widespread class cancellations was averted early Wednesday after the union and university reached a tentative agreement on a contract that would strengthen job security and boost the pay by an average 30% over five years. “We’re encouraging and advising members to teach today,” said Mia McIver, president of the …

Job Contract University Strike Pay Union Agreement

3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: UC churns through a quarter of its lecturers a year. Why I was forced to move on

LA Times

While UC students binge Netflix’s “Squid Games” in their dorms, most may not realize that the lecturers teaching their classes are forced into real-life high-stakes squid games: We are fighting to survive in the UC system. We stand on perpetually shaky ground: burdened by unpaid work, salaries too low to afford to live in the communities where we teach, and …

Students Work Phd Teach Lecturers Lecturer Uc Students

3 years, 1 month ago

Record number of university students; UvA buckling from internationals

NL Times

A record number of 340,700 bachelor's and master's students enrolled at a Dutch university this academic year. But there is a limit to the possibilities of our universities to cope with the ever-increasing influx of international students and to provide high-quality education," said Duisenberg. The University of Amsterdam is buckling under the influx of students, and it too wants a …

International Netherlands International Students Number Uva Students Duisenberg Vsnu

3 years, 3 months ago

University academics threaten to strike over misuse of online lectures

The Telegraph

Universities could face potential strike action if they misuse recorded lectures and withhold performance rights from staff, a union has warned. Storing old recorded lectures to reuse at a later date has the potential to "degrade student learning and academic standards", the union said. The UCU says staff must retain control over their recorded lectures, seminars and teaching sessions to …

Academic Staff Recorded Lectures Student Learning Ucu Recorded Lectures

3 years, 7 months ago

Univ. Amsterdam students have not given up hope for exchange programs

NL Times

Students at the University of Amsterdam are still rallying to allow their exchange programs to continue. The exchange would allow over a thousand students the opportunity to simultaneously continue their education path, travel the world and discover new cultures. There are many students who took three or four jobs to go on exchange because they heard a vaccine is coming …

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6 years, 9 months ago

University Ignored Repeated Complaints of Sexual Harassment by Lecturer for Years

NL Times

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences ignored complaints about a lecturer for years. The university received several complaints about the lecturer, including one in 2017 where he allegedly said that a student should play with his tampon. The university investigated the complaints and eventually decided to suspend the lecturer indefinitely. The court ruled that the lecturer's employment can be terminated as …

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