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• Student faces deportation from UK after arriving early for course at university’s request

  08-04-2023 17:00
  
  A mix-up on dates meant Rasikh Aziz travelled from Pakistan too soon. Now the University of Law has reported him to the Home OfficeAn international student who travelled to the UK two months early after being given the wrong enrolment date by his university is facing deportation after it reported him to the Home Office.Rasikh Aziz was incorrectly told by the University of Law that he must arrive by October 2022 for a postgraduate course beginning in January 2023, according to documents seen by t
  
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• NASUWT teaching union calls for talks after members reject England pay offer

  08-04-2023 16:54
  
  General secretary says vote against one-off bonus and 4.5% pay rise means strikes in summer term ‘could be’ on the cardsMinisters have been urged to return to the negotiating table to avoid extended teachers’ strikes in England this summer, after NASUWT members voted decisively to reject the pay deal being offered by the government.NASUWT is the fourth teaching union to reject the pay offer, with 87% of its members voting against acceptance. It follows similar rejections by the
  
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• Going to private school makes you twice as likely to vote Tory, study finds

  08-04-2023 16:00
  
  Research reveals a private education is directly linked to holding rightwing views and voting Conservative in midlifeHaving a private school education means a person is twice as likely to become a loyal Conservative voter as someone with a state education, regardless of their wealth or class background, a new study has found.Researchers from University College London used data that tracked the lives of 6,917 British people born in the same week in 1970 to quantify how a private education affecte
  
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• Fourth teaching union NASUWT rejects pay offer

  08-04-2023 15:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The NASUWT, which represents 280,000 UK teachers, will re-ballot members over strike action.
  
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• ‘They thought we were all communists’: Bradford’s peace studies department turns 50

  08-04-2023 07:00
  
  University department derided by Thatcher as a ‘problem’ – and now a leading centre of conflict resolution – celebrates anniversaryThere have been a number of memorable Peace v War football matches over the years, with terrific performances from players including the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and the eminent Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz (or so the names on the back of the players’ jerseys would have you believe).But the most crushing victory rem
  
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• Liverpool nursery workers who lost jobs after striking call for solidarity in sector

  08-04-2023 07:00
  
  More than 50 early years staff without work after Merseyside service closed days after one-day strikeA group of early years workers who lost their jobs without warning days after a one-day strike have called on others in the sector to “stand up and be counted”.More than 50 staff, thought to be the first group of early years workers to have their union recognised in England, were put out of work, leaving 200 families scrambling to find childcare, when the Orchard nursery in Huyton, Me
  
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• Government treating teachers in England with contempt over pay offer, says union

  08-04-2023 01:01
  
  NASUWT general secretary said ministers ‘not serious about compromising’ in last month’s talks
  Ministers are treating teachers in England with contempt if they refuse to renegotiate their “miserable” pay offer, according to a teaching union leader who fears the government wants to “walk away” after only six days of talks.Patrick Roach, the general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said the government insisted on using forecasts of very low inflatio
  
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