UK union fears thousands of job losses as casual contracts axed

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Call for universities to extend casual contracts to protect staff and stop them losing jobs because of coronavirus disruption

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Pandemic throws spotlight on HE employment practices

Questions raised about the responses of universities in marketised systems as they focus savings efforts on non-permanent staff

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Goldsmiths staff ‘at breaking point’ on job losses and racism claims

Casual staff start marking boycott over failure to extend contracts, move seen as having outsized impact on BAME and female academics

By Anna McKie

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UK union fears thousands of job losses as casual contracts axed

Union says that more than 1,000 posts are under review at at King’s College London, with Liverpool also looking at major cuts

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UK union fears thousands of job losses as casual contracts axed

Union says that more than 1,000 posts are under review at at King’s College London, with Liverpool also looking at major cuts

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‘Grim situation’ for UK’s fixed-term staff in virus crisis

Pandemic throws spotlight on HE employment practices

Goldsmiths staff ‘at breaking point’ on job losses and racism claims

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King’s College London

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