January 2009

• Stratford-Upon-Avon College management plan HSE workload assessment following UCU branch survey
  30 January 2009

  Work levels appeared to be having an adverse effect on teaching staff at Stratford-upon-Avon College during the autumn term after branch officers received numerous approaches from stressed members.
• Concerns over drop in part-time students
  29 January 2009

  UCU said today that it was particularly concerned by a drop in the number of part-time students at university.
• Targeted investment needed to improve UK's basic skills, says UCU
  29 January 2009

  UCU today urged the government to allocate funding for basic skills to the areas that need it most.
• Strike date set at 11 further education colleges in pay row
  23 January 2009

  Eleven colleges across the country will be brought to a standstill on Thursday 5 February in a row over their failure to honour a pay deal agreed over four years ago.
• Row over £2.5million swimming pool plans from job-cutting university
  21 January 2009

  UCU today slammed plans from Plymouth University to splurge £2.5 million on improvements to a local swimming pool, as it considers compulsory redundancies among key academic staff.
• Concerns over secret privatisation deal at City University
  19 January 2009

  UCU today slammed privatisation proposals at City University. The union said the plans to privatise the recruitment, teaching and accommodation of international students had been pulled together without proper consultation and warned the University would be 'gambling with its reputation' if it went ahead with a joint venture with the firm INTO.
• UCU welcomes select committee report on importance of lifelong learning
  16 January 2009

  UCU today welcomed calls from an influential parliamentary committee to support colleges delivering relevant training to individuals and communities likely to be worst hit by the economic downturn.
• Support for colleges and relevant training key to social mobility in tough times, says UCU
  13 January 2009

  UCU said today that the government should be commended for its plans to try and improve social mobility through the power of education.
• Resounding 'yes' for strike action at 'IOU' colleges
  12 January 2009

  Eleven colleges across the country may be brought to a standstill over their failure to award staff a pay deal agreed four years ago.
• UCU responds to higher education staff report
  8 January 2009

  UCU today accused the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (UCEA) of disingenuously taking credit for improved pay in the higher education sector.