The AUT and Natfhe are to resume discussions with UCEA next Monday, under the auspices of the arbitration service Acas.
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The AUT says the college is trying to save money by sacrificing teaching staff and student support as it focuses on winning high research ratings.
The AUT and Natfhe are refusing to mark exams or coursework.
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Following media reports of the letter opposing the industrial action, the president of Warwick University Students' Union, Kat Stark, drafted another to the AUT's Sally Hunt.
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With graduations threatened, universities such as Cambridge and Keele have already set in motion "emergency measures" - such as using exam papers from other sources - the AUT said.
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Two lecturers' unions, the AUT and Natfhe, are boycotting all exam-marking and coursework assessment - and in the AUT's case exam-setting - until they see a "substantial" pay rise for members.
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The resolutions have been proposed by AUT members in Birmingham.
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The AUT is also boycotting the setting of exam papers.
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The Association of University Teachers (AUT) believes that cuts being considered by the school of medicine at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London will damage the quality of teaching.
"The AUT is opposing compulsory redundancies and has been involved in negotiations to try to resolve the problem through voluntary means, but the college is threatening redundancies if sufficient volunteers do not come forward by 31 July, " she said.
"I continue to hear from more students' unions who want to join forces to reiterate our full support for the industrial action taken by the AUT at the moment, " said Ms Stark - who is also the NUS national women's officer-elect.
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The AUT, holding its annual council in Eastbourne, is being called upon to boycott of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unless it "calls for a halt to all attempts to confiscate land from Palestinian families, and reaches an acceptable settlement" with them.
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