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This page lists news for the previous year.

14 December 2005

Prison educators need stability to train offenders into work

13 December 2005

Take education out of GATS say teachers

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

02 December 2005

Lord Turner's commission publishes pensions report

02 December 2005

50 MPs sign up to campaign for a Trade Union Freedom Bill

02 December 2005

Overwhelming vote for new University and College Union

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

MPs sign up to motion on the FE funding gap

07 November 2005

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

02 November 2005

Free, professional advice for those working in the lifelong learning sector

01 November 2005

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

26 October 2005

Union’s black staff celebrate black history – and highlight educational needs of Britain's black children

21 October 2005

College funding announcement will create winners and losers

20 October 2005

Signing up for the merger ballot

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

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

29 September 2005

Axe falls on 17 college jobs due to funding cuts

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

NATFHE comment on extremism on campuses

22 September 2005

Strike suspended at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College

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

FE teachers can't live on praise alone

2 September 2005

HE members accept 3% - but demand a fair slice of universities’ new income

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

4 August 2005

London Met appeal

3 August 2005

Merger plans move to next phase

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

Mayor launches London bombings appeal

15 July 2005

Newcastle prepares for all-out strike

14 July 2005

World's unions respond to 7/7

11 July 2005

NATFHE warns against anti-Muslim backlash

4 July 2005

Denial of student visa appeals condemned

29 June 2005

N Herts lecturers to strike

29 June 2005

Campaign saves 66 jobs

29 June 2005

Newcastle threatens up to 50% of staff with sack

23 June 2005

NEC By-elections

23 June 2005

Nearly £11m cut for West Yorkshire colleges

22 June 2005

More support for diploma

21 June 2005

NATFHE sets out hopes for Foster review

17 June 2005

LLUK workshops on setting new professional standards

17 June 2005

Take a minute to sign up to fair funding

10 June 2005

NATHFE calls for moratorium on job losses

9 June 2005

Diploma within a decade

8 June 2005

Investigation needed in Leicester

7 June 2005

NATFHE submission to Foster review now online

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?

20 May 2005

Newcastle lecturers hold seventh strike day

17 May 2005

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

11 May 2005

NATFHE welcomes 48 hour max ruling

11 May 2005

London Met rally announced

5 May 2005

Eleven colleges to ballot after ten-month wait

5 May 2005

Over 3,000 sign up for NATFHE

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

AUT votes to ballot for new union

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

London lecturers to strike again

6 April 2005

'Unsung heroes' echo MPs' attack

5 April 2005

Think again on Tomlinson, says NATFHE

24 March 2005

Hayes to be next VP

24 March 2005

Bradford and Hackney lecturers vote to strike over redundancies

23 March 2005

Burton College lecturers go ape

22 March 2005

Skills academies could divert money from colleges

22 March 2005

NATFHE pensions ballot halted as government agrees fresh start in pensions negotiations

21 March 2005

TUC sets out plans for Union Academy

17 March 2005

Race equality & the curriculum - sell-out conference enthuses delegates

17 March 2005

Ten colleges in successful two-day strike

17 March 2005

First wave of pensions strikes draws near

16 March 2005

Budget fails to address lowly pay

16 March 2005

Call for fairer funding as lecturers who perform 'daily miracles' walk out

14 March 2005

AUT executive agrees first step to new union

14 March 2005

Pensions strikes: more join the fray

11 March 2005

College lecturers to strike again

11 March 2005

NUT to ballot for one-day strike over pensions

10 March 2005

'Preston' part-timer pension cases

8 March 2005

Countdown to Conference

4 March 2005

NEC elections...

4 March 2005

Strike coverage roundup

3 March 2005

Strike vote at Bradford

1 March 2005

Minister to speak at Wales conference

25 February 2005

Take a minute to sign up to fair funding

24 February 2005

Strikes off at 35% of colleges balloted

24 February 2005

Lecturers top unpaid overtime league

23 February 2005

Shambolic system torments children, says NATFHE

22 February 2005

Thousands protest at 'biggest ever pensions change'

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"

18 February 2005

25 February is Work Your Proper Hours Day...

17 February 2005

FOI briefing now online

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-timer's rights

5 February 2005

Midlands principals' salaries questioned

28 January 2005

Lecturers to vote on strike action

19 January 2005

Poorer students need bursaries

18 January 2005

New union gets closer

12 January 2005

Pensions campaign day

6 January 2005

Bursary battles won't widen university access

5 January 2005

TUC Aid Tsunami Appeal

4 January 2005

NEC elections materials now online