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College 'loses half its teachers'
Published: 01 July, 2007
A college is losing more than half of its teaching staff in a dispute over new contracts and workloads. Academics' union the UCU says 97 out of 179 teaching staff at Harlow College, Essex, have decided to take redundancy, after five days of strikes. University and College Union official Liz Martins said the quality of courses would decline and predicted a crisis. The college said a package of measures would improve standards and that the staffing situation would soon improve. Harlow College principal Colin Hindmarch said a range of steps were being taken to improve standards of attainment at the college. He said: "Almost 80% of our teaching staff are set to get a pay rise to reflect the new terms. Related articles: 
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