June 2007

• Harlow College staffing crisis looms as half teaching staff set to leave
  29 June 2007

  A staffing crisis is set to follow the mass departure of teaching staff from Harlow College.
• UCU calls for ESOL moratorium as protest goes to Downing Street
  29 June 2007

  UCU has urged the government to implement a one year moratorium on changes in entitlement to free courses in ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).
• UCU reacts to cabinet education appointments
  28 June 2007

  UCU today welcomed the appointment of John Denham as innovation, universities and skills secretary.
• Sunderland College lecturers to hold strike ballot over jobs threats
  28 June 2007

  UCU members at City of Sunderland College are set to ballot on whether to take strike action in defence of teaching jobs threatened with redundancy.
• UCU urges new PM to back education rhetoric with action
  27 June 2007

  Ahead of Gordon Brown becoming prime minister later today, UCU urged the former chancellor to back up his consistent warm words on the importance of education through coherent policy and increased investment.
• UCU response to top-up fees report
  26 June 2007

  UCU today warned against increasing the cost of studying at university. On the day Universities UK (UUK) releases a report assessing the impact of top-up fees on students and universities, UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said that she believed the current regime is restricting students' university choices and that many are put off going altogether.
• Skipton lecturers set for first ever strike
  20 June 2007

  Lecturers at Craven College in Skipton are contemplating taking unprecedented industrial action including strikes.
• UCU backs 'skills pledge', but says government must force employers to cough up
  14 June 2007

  UCU today signed up to promote the government drive to get employers to commit to a Skills Pledge for their employees. Improving workforce skills was vital, said UCU, but warned however that merely asking employers to commit would not be enough.
• English classes essential, says UCU in response to social cohesion report
  14 June 2007

  UCU said today that unless the government stops plans to cut access to free English classes it has no chance of meeting the recommendations of a Commission on Integration and Cohesion (CIC) report released this morning.
• Leeds Met staff stressed and losing sleep over management bullying
  14 June 2007

  Over two thirds (68%) of staff surveyed at Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) have suffered stress because of bullying from their managers.