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NATFHE has issued the following press releases during the previous year:

09 December 2005

Employers warned not to renege on pay

08 December 2005

470 lecturers face worse contract or redundancy

06 December 2005

All educators should be able to retire at 60, says NATFHE committee

05 December 2005

Lecturer's last-ditch appeal is rejected

05 December 2005

Employment tribunal rules that lecturers were unfairly dismissed

02 December 2005

Overwhelming vote for new University and College Union

30 November 2005

NATFHE and AUT call for urgent clarification over Imperial College dress code policy

17 November 2005

NATFHE celebrates successful strike and demonstration

16 November 2005

Government pledge to narrow college funding gap is not enough

15 November 2005

Foster report has been distorted says NATFHE

15 November 2005

NATFHE welcomes Foster's vision for colleges but warns it won't become reality without better pay

08 November 2005

Tackling hate crimes on campus

08 November 2005

No-confidence ballot on VC at Liverpool John Moores University

07 November 2005

Lecturers at 80% of colleges vote 'yes' to pay strike

01 November 2005

Fund colleges fairly - NATFHE highlights 60,000-strong petition

21 October 2005

‘My office is my car’ - the authentic voice of hourly-paid lecturers - and the case for change

21 October 2005

College funding announcement will create winners and losers

21 October 2005

Fears of damage to NHS training and patient care

19 October 2005

Nearly four-fifths of colleges to take part in strike ballot over pay

18 October 2005

Pensions rethink welcomed

18 October 2005

Bradford lecturers to hold two-day strike over broken pay promise

18 October 2005

Progress - but part-time students need more help

13 October 2005

Doncaster college lecturers vote to strike over 95 redundancies

11 October 2005

Online survey finds 50% of college lecturers denied compulsory teacher training

07 October 2005

Union president to tour Yorkshire colleges and urge lecturers to vote ‘yes’ to national pay strike

06 October 2005

NATFHE and AUT challenge universities to honour salaries promise

29 September 2005

Axe falls on 17 college jobs due to funding cuts

29 September 2005

Lecturers Threaten Industrial Action

28 September 2005

More job losses at Newcastle College

27 September 2005

Lecturers urged to vote 'YES' to strike over 'pay chaos'

22 September 2005

Strike suspended at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College

22 September 2005

Lecturers welcome high student satisfaction

20 September 2005

500 London college lecturers to strike over pay

20 September 2005

Lecturers’ leaders and students welcome Liberal Democrats’ call to close funding gap

14 September 2005

Support progress in Venezuela, says NATFHE

12 September 2005

Labour has lost way, say lecturers

9 September 2005

97% say 'YES' to new London Met contract

05 September 2005

Lecturers’ leaders and students welcome Liberal Democrats’ call to close funding gap

2 September 2005

Lecturers accept 3% pay offer – but demand a fair slice of universities’ new income

2 September 2005

Further Education lecturers can’t live on praise alone

1 September 2005

Africa’s ‘brain drain’ is Britain’s gain - the search for a fairer relationship

19 August 2005

More crime could follow poor pay of prison educators

16 August 2005

Diploma should replace A-levels, says NATFHE

27 July 2005

NATFHE recommends reluctant acceptance of 3% 2005 pay offer - but promises major campaign for next pay round

25 July 2005

London Metropolitan University and NATFHE agree to recommend revised contract

21 July 2005

57 redundancies threatened at Bath

21 July 2005

Face up to funding gap, says NATFHE

21 July 2005

Pay offer rejected, national strike set for November

15 July 2005

Newcastle prepares for all-out strike

11 July 2005

Lecturers' union warns against Islamophobic backlash

5 July 2005

Bournemouth University lecturers ready to strike against worsening of pay and conditions

4 July 2005

Denial of student visa appeals condemned

30 June 2005

Lecturers welcome action to prevent discrimination against women researchers

29 June 2005

Campaign saves 66 jobs

29 June 2005

Newcastle threatens up to 50% of staff with sack

29 June 2005

N Herts lecturers to strike

28 June 2005

Fears for part-time study of 'strategic subjects'

28 June 2005

Welsh reject fees - but underfunding fears remain

23 June 2005

Bournemouth could wreck national pay discussions – and cost the university £750,000

23 June 2005

Nearly £11m cut for West Yorkshire colleges

22 June 2005

More support for diploma

21 June 2005

Zandra Rhodes show must go on – but lecturers fear loss of design skills 'honed over generations'

21 June 2005

NATFHE sets out hopes for Foster review

14 June 2005

Jeremy Corbyn MP to address London Metropolitan lecturers ahead of key governors’ meeting

10 June 2005

NATHFE calls for moratorium on job losses

9 June 2005

Diploma within a decade

8 June 2005

NATFHE general secretary backs new learning at work project

8 June 2005

94% of voting lecturers call for public inquiry at Liverpool John Moores University

8 June 2005

Investigation needed in Leicester

28 May 2005

Conference votes for merger ballot

27 May 2005

Average lecturers works 11 unpaid hours a week

26 May 2005

If BBC can talk, why can't Newcastle?

24 May 2005

Time to end 'burger bar' contracts of estimated 70,000 university lecturers

20 May 2005

Longest strike in recent history by university lecturers has taken place

20 May 2005

Newcastle lecturers hold seventh strike day

17 May 2005

80% of lecturers in a new ballot vote to strike over pay

16 May 2005

Longest recent strike in higher education begins

11 May 2005

Higher education unions ask "Where have the billions gone?"

11 May 2005

NATFHE welcomes 48 hour max ruling

10 May 2005

One week strike at London Metropolitan University

6 May 2005

HE unions warn employers of disruption over inadequate London weighting

5 May 2005

Eleven colleges to ballot after ten-month wait

4 May 2005

Welsh colleges to ballot

4 May 2005

North Lindsey lecturers balloted over redundancies and pay

29 April 2005

NEC votes for merger ballot

28 April 2005

One-day strike at Burton

22 April 2005

NATFHE and TSN team up for survey

21 April 2005

Third strike looms at London Met University

21 April 2005

AUT votes to ballot for new union

20 April 2005

University lecturers asked to donate to students

16 April 2005

Unions challenge election candidates

12 April 2005

Strike off as Bradford agrees to negotiate

11 April 2005

Yorkshire lecturers to ballot for strike

8 April 2005

Lecturers told to accept inferior pay deal or lose jobs

6 April 2005

Dennis Hayes elected as new vice president of largest lecturers' union

6 April 2005

London lecturers to strike again

5 April 2005

Pressure mounts again as London Metropolitan University rejects ACAS mediation

5 April 2005

Think again on Tomlinson, says NATFHE

31 March 2005

'Unsung heroes' prison educators echo criticsim of a failing prison education service

23 March 2005

Angry Bradford College lecturers vote overwhelmingly to strike in protest at 122 redundancies

22 March 2005

Skills academies could divert money from colleges

16 March 2005

Bursaries increase inequality

16 March 2005

NATFHE supports call for fairer funding as college lecturers walk out over pay

16 March 2005

Budget fails to address lowly pay

11 March 2005

College lecturers to strike again

10 March 2005

Elite research universities 'take lion's share of funds again'

9 March 2005

London Metropolitan University academic boycott reinstated, plus ballot for strike action

3 March 2005

Strike vote at Bradford

1 March 2005

Minister to speak at Wales conference

28 February 2005

ACAS talks collapse as London Met refuses to talk over contract

26 February 2005

Lecturers rail at vice-chancellors' fat cat pay

24 February 2005

Strikes off at 35% of colleges balloted

24 February 2005

Lecturers top unpaid overtime league

23 February 2005

Scandal of inadequate funding for part-time university students

23 February 2005

Shambolic system torments children, says NATFHE

21 February 2005

NATFHE urges Alice to stand her ground

21 February 2005

Don't sideline Tomlinson, says NATFHE

18 February 2005

Pensions: "We'll settle for the MPs' scheme"

14 February 2005

Overwhelming vote for strike on pay

14 February 2005

Strike ballot to defend pensions

9 February 2005

Talks move up a gear

9 February 2005

Fairer funding should be a priority

7 February 2005

Tribunal rejects removal of part-time lecturer's rights

4 February 2005

Patten's call for Oxford fees hike condemned

28 January 2005

Lecturers to vote on strike action

19 January 2005

Poorer students need bursaries

18 January 2005

New union gets closer

6 January 2005

Bursary battles won't widen university access

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