Universities UK were largely absent over the past 14 years (other than dissing the staff) so it's good to hear that The Labour Party are "working on it now" and "looking at the options". However, UK HE needs action now. UCU bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Our further education members are chronically overworked and underpaid. We need a #ANewDealForFE now ✊ UCU London Regional Office Join the fight 👉 ucu.org.uk/NewDealForFE

Don't miss our Green Party Conference fringe happening today 👇 🗣️ Zack Polanski 🗣️ NUS UK 🗣️ Natalie Bennett 🗣️ Green💚🌻🍉Molly The Green Party #GPC24

So excited for this!

Our ‘Cancel the Market’ fringe, on the fight for public higher education, is underway. Zack Polanski NUS UK Natalie Bennett Green💚🌻🍉Molly The Green Party #GPC24

So good to see my union @UCU taking part in this 'Cancel the Market' event at The Green Party conference, focusing on the crisis in university education - a crisis of marketisation, privatised student debt & casualisation of academic jobs. #gpconf #gpconf24

Packed UCU fringe at Green Party Conference in Manchester. Molly Scott Cato (Green💚🌻🍉Molly) speaking brilliantly about her personal experience of how marketisation has ravaged higher education. #GPC24

“The whole tuition fee and loan system is a fiction. It’s not going to be paid back. It’s a simulacrum of a bad model of finance.” Member of the House of Lords and former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett (Natalie Bennett) speaking at our #GPC24 fringe

Education is a public good - which should be paid for from general progressive taxation: as The Green Party has always said and will always say

We're fighting for: 👉 Parity with schoolteacher pay 👉A minimum starting salary of £30,000  👉National agreements on workload It’s the least college students and our members deserve. We need a #ANewDealForFE

Don't forget to catch Jo Grady at this fringe on Monday 👇

How can prisoners be expected to learn in conditions like this👇 As the union that represents prison educators we demand change. UCU Prison Education needs a payrise Find out more 👉 ucu.org.uk/prisons bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Don't miss Jo Grady speaking at the Women’s Committee Fringe on Sexual Harassment on Sunday.

Overworked, underpaid and taken for granted. Further education staff have had enough. We need national bargaining. NOW. Join the fight for a #NewDealForFE 👇 ucu.org.uk/NewDealForFE