The sit-in at the university conference centre follows a 300-strong staff and student protest on Thursday over plans to outsource 235 campus jobs.

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The university staff union, the UCU, warned that the growth in student numbers needed to be matched by increased investment in higher education.

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This week's contributor is Chris Blank, staff writer at the Maneater, the independent student newspaper at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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In 1995 a young engineering student from the University of Virginia, John Paul Huguley, rang Fallingwater's staff to explain that, according to his calculations, the building was unsound.

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Among other issues, university staff were caught pressuring students to dishonestly answer an official funding council survey of student satisfaction.

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It went on: "If this extra income does not rise at least at the same rate as student and staff numbers then it will be difficult to maintain the premium services that the university and colleges provide (and which are essential to preserve the character of Cambridge)".

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"While we as a university and coaching staff clearly should have done a better job academically with our men's basketball student athletes in the past, the changes we have implemented have already had a significant impact and have helped us achieve the success we expect in the classroom, " Calhoun said.

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In the year between a university student's recruitment and her start at work, she is sent newsletters, her uniform (designed by staff and voted on at a company fashion show) and assorted company philosophies set down by Ms Yazu's late husband that the new recruit has to memorise.

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