2014
UCU news from 2014
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27 November 2014
Lecturers at Sheffield Hallam University who are on casualised contracts want proper full-time contracts, according to a survey of staff released today. Four-fifths…
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4 November 2014
Thousands of staff members at colleges and universities across the UK are being encouraged to put pressure on their MPs on 5 November as part of a day of action…
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29 September 2014
Staff would see tens of thousands of pounds a year wiped off their pensions if proposals made by Universities UK (UUK) were introduced, warns a report released…
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22 July 2014
UCU today re-emphasised its opposition to zero-hours contracts at an industry briefing on atypical and zero-hours contracts hosted by conciliation experts Acas.…
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14 July 2014
Edinburgh Napier University is under fire after it was revealed that it is advertising lecturer posts on zero-hours contracts. UCU has today written* to the institution…
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7 July 2014
Prospective university students will be encouraged to ask difficult questions at open days as part of a campaign for greater transparency in higher education launched…
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6 May 2014
• Millions of students taught by staff with few rights or facilities • 30% of college teachers and 17% of university teachers on zero-hours contracts • 67% of university…
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30 April 2014
New figures released today show that employers in Britain are using about 1.4m 'zero-hours' contracts The figures , from the Office for National Statistics, show…
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15 April 2014
Cardiff Metropolitan University is under fire for imposing a bizarre new contract on its professors which includes a clause stating that they may be prevented from…
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28 February 2014
Teaching and educational professionals are the group of workers most likely to be putting in unpaid overtime and clocking up the most free hours a week, according…
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