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SINCE 2010, higher education has been subjected to increased marketisation.
The University and College Union (UCU) has highlighted how some highly qualified academics who would normally have a job “for life” might find their remuneration has been changed to fixed-term, or to payment on an hourly basis with no protection to make plans for the future.
So how do these changes to contract affect staff and in turn impact on students?
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