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• King's College protest over £20m acquisition of East Wing of Somerset House as jobs axed Members of UCU are leading protests at Somerset House tomorrow (Saturday) from 11.30am. The protestors will be demonstrating as King's shows off the East Wing of Somerset House at an alumni event.

• UCU accuses University of Reading of taking wrecking ball to the sciences UCU today accused the University of Reading of 'taking a wrecking ball to the sciences' after it announced plans for swingeing job cuts.

• UCU welcomes departure of Bournemouth University chief Members of UCU at Bournemouth University have welcomed the news that vice-chancellor Professor Paul Curran is to leave the university.

• Staff at University of Leeds call for strikes if no progress in talks Members of UCU at the University of Leeds have today announced that unless there is real progress towards reaching agreement in the next week they will be taking strike action on Thursday 18 March.

• Prisoner rehabilitation a 'pipe dream', says UCU, as main prison education provider axes hundreds of jobs UCU today warned that rehabilitation of prisoners would remain a pipe dream as hundreds of prison educators faced the sack.

• Strike date set at University of Sussex Members of UCU at the University of Sussex have today announced that they will be out on strike on Thursday 18 March.

• UCU member wins national writing competition Esti Mardiani-Euers, a UCU member from Lancaster, was celebrated this week as part of World Book Day. Esti was one of the winners of a TUC writing competition that won a special tribute from the Prime Minister's wife, Sarah Brown, at a reception at Downing Street.

• Scrap fees and fund university through business tax, says new report A report released today by UCU recommends raising the level of corporation tax in the UK to the G7 countries' average to raise enough money to abolish all university tuition fees.