We’re in parliament today with @ChiOnwurah launching our new report on how #casualisation creates second-class academic citizens: ucu.org.uk/article/10527/… 
UCU’s Jane Thompson now talking about the scale of #casualisation in higher education - where 67% of researchers and almost half of teaching staff are on insecure contracts: ucu.org.uk/article/10527/…
Report co-authors @NickMegoran and Olivia Mason are now talking about how casual employment models dehumanise and devalue academic staff
Staff stuck on casual contracts are made to feel invisible, struggle to develop longer-term career goals and identities, and don’t have access to the same rights (e.g. maternity pay) that their colleagues on open-ended contracts do: ucu.org.uk/article/10527/…
The government needs to push universities to be honest about the extent of their reliance on casual contracts if we are to achieve meaningful change on #casualisation, report author Olivia Mason suggests
Shadow higher education and further education minister @EmmaHardyMP now talking about the need to deal with the problem of #casualisation in the wider context of HE funding
Casualisation and marketisation are closely linked in higher education, @IanMearnsMP suggests - the Office for Students needs to look more carefully at how #casualisation affects value for money
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