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UK: NUS calls for NHS Surcharge & work hour scrap

The PIE News

The NHS Surcharge and working hour cap for international students should be scrapped, the UK’s National Union of Students has said. The UK should also rejoin the Erasmus+ program, which it left when it left the European Union. It’s vital that parties and candidates listen to us,” Field stressed.

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Historic Faculty Strike Disrupts California State University System

Insight Into Diversity

Among its demands, the union requested a 12% pay raise, better pay for lowest-paid faculty, and longer paid parental leave. We are fighting against management’s self-defeating austerity policies that serve to shift funding away from classrooms, labs, libraries, athletics, and counseling centers,” the union wrote in a statement.

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British Council Taiwan: teachers unionise over pay

The PIE News

The union, which represents more than two-thirds of British Council Taiwan teachers, has rejected BCTW’s offer of a 2.5% We would have to put it to the members to vote, but I expect they would accept an offer of an 8-10% consolidated (permanent) wage increase,” said union branch chair Jack Falconer. Not yet,” said Falconer.

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Rutgers University and Faculty Unions Reach Agreement for New Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rutgers University reached an agreement with its faculty unions Apr. 14 for new contract, after a week of faculty strikes, NBC News reported. The amendments are pending ratification by each faculty union, according to Rutgers. The two sides came to an agreement after New Jersey Gov.

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Syracuse Grad Workers Unionize

Inside Higher Ed

Syracuse University graduate student workers have successfully unionized. Syracuse Graduate Employees United, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said in a news release that the vote was 728 to 36, with 90 contested ballots. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Ireland set sights on international scholars & grads

The PIE News

Authorities have narrowed down the priority regions to the west and east coasts of the US, major EU capitals and London, Asia, the Middle East and other locations. The government will also appoint six Talent and Innovation Attachés in Irish embassies and consulates in priority regions by 2030 to support growth and international relations.

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Monthlong Temple strike enters possibly pressing week

Inside Higher Ed

As of Thursday, Temple said only about 30 percent of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association union members are actually striking. The union, abbreviated TUGSA, has contested the university’s count before but didn’t provide its own figure last week. But the union has kept up its walkout since Jan.

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