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An open letter to UK university lecturers

Whether it’s the restructuring of lecturers' pensions in the UK or the introduction of selective entrance requirements to French universities — the struggle is one and the same.

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"No to education on the cheap!" Students and teachers demonstrate between Montparnasse station and Ecole Militaire joining railway workers in solidarity. Paris, France, May 3, 2018. Boivin Samuel/Press Association. All rights reserved.To lecturers in the UK,

This is about the future of higher education and the vision of society it necessarily implies.

As academics and students in France, we extend our solidarity to you. To the lecturers facing uncertainty regarding their pensions, to the young academics starting their careers in conditions of utmost precarity, and to the students supporting them, we send this simple message: keep going. The strikes may be over, but the struggle is not.