Connect , March 2020

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UK report says casual university staff treated like

2nd class citizens

Image: Waterloo Station, London Underground (Wikimedia Commons)

Staff on casualised contracts in UK universities are vulnerable and invisible ‘second-class academics’, says a new report released in February. The report says universities’ bold statements about how much they value their staff ring hollow when put against how thousands of staff without secure contracts are treated.

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Connect ® Volume 13, no. 1 ® Semester 1, 2020


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