Global dispatches
UCU has a strong tradition of taking up issues at international and European level where they affect members' professional lives, and also working with partner organisations on solidarity and international development issues identified by the membership through UCU's democratic structures.
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4 March 2013
Eighty years on, a British charity originally set up to support academic refugees from Nazi Germany is still in business, helping desperate people from all around…
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17 December 2012
Dr Renan Vega, an academic at the National Pedagogic University of Colombia, was forced to flee his country in August this year, as a result of false accusations…
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18 October 2012
Dr. Miguel Beltrán, Colombian academic and former political prisoner, has finally won an extension to carry out his post-doctoral study from outside Colombia. The…
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20 September 2012
FUTA are striking for increased state funding for education and for genuine institutional autonomy for universities. The Federation of Teachers' Unions (FUTA),…
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10 June 2012
A number of motions on international issues were passed at UCU Congress held in June 2012. These included motions about Venezuela, Greece, Burma, Colombia and Canada.…
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