Lecturers hold strike over ‘unfair pay and workload’

A one-day strike is being held by hundreds of lecturers at further education colleges in Northern Ireland
By Gemma Murray
Published 24th Mar 2021, 08:06 BST
Updated 24th Mar 2021, 08:09 BST
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Staff belonging to the University and College Union (UCU) are taking the action in a dispute over pay and workload.

Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said the union rejected a pay offer amounting to a 7% rise - but the UCU say their members in further education colleges had only received a 3.8% pay rise since 2013/14.

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About 70,000 students attend Northern Ireland’s six Further Education (FE) colleges, according to figures from the Department for the Economy (DfE).

Many of those students take vocational courses and many study part-time.

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