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How students are getting screwed…again

The News Agents

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The Union's Choice to Boycott Marking Students Work

I work delivering bread for Tesco through the nights earn a quarter of what you get for far more physically demanding work. I'm still waiting for my low value foundation degree grades and it's only cost me a year's salary. We warned employers employers who have sufficient resources to pay people properly over a year ago that we would do this if they did not negotiate a settlement with us. Sadly they have decided that crushing their own workers and alienating students and potentially trashing the reputation of UK higher education was more important. If you are a student you will find this deeply frustrating but the answer cannot be expecting the staff that teach you, that support you, that offer you mental health services has to

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