Just received this from the Guardian:

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Warning: meltdown imminent

11 May 2006

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Universities face meltdown over pay, says lecturers' leader

Universities face complete "meltdown" if the lecturers' pay dispute is not resolved this week, the Association of University Teachers warned employers today.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/specialreports/lecturerspay/story/0,,1772449,00.html

It does look like we might be in for a bumpy ride. I'm still surprised how few people know about this. I'm still trasumatising students who are about to hand in their work and haven't heard about it yet. A common response when I explain the action is, 'What, again?!' It seems many of them thought the strike was one day of action and that was that.

I do hope it's resolved soon, though.