News
Leading news and reaction from UCU.
-
2 May 2007
UCU has welcomed today's decision of the London Employment and Skills Board (LESB) to commit £15 million to protect the teaching of ESOL (English for Speakers of…
-
30 April 2007
UCU today welcomed the Education and Skills Committee's report on the Bologna process. The aims of the Bologna Process are to create greater mobility between European…
-
27 April 2007
UCU today welcomed former education minister David Blunkett MP's support for calls for the government to rethink plans to restrict access to free courses in English…
-
25 April 2007
UCU Scotland today warned that the decline in the number of applicants from Scotland is a cause of concern, after reviewing university application figures released…
-
25 April 2007
Responding to university application figures released today by the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), UCU warned government and universities not…
-
24 April 2007
The privatisation of university services, cuts in adult education, bullying and academic freedom are some of the issues to be debated by lecturers and academic-related…
-
24 April 2007
On Saturday 28 April, staff and students from North London colleges will demonstrate their opposition to the government's continued cuts in adult education and…
-
21 April 2007
An obsession with skills has undermined the idea of education and allowed politicians and policy wonks to do away with education, Dr Dennis Hayes, joint president…
-
19 April 2007
Efforts by a private training provider to take over part of the teaching at a midlands college have been emphatically rejected by lecturers. Private training provider…
-
19 April 2007
Ahead of a Lords debate today on the role universities are playing in shaping the future of the UK, the joint general secretary of UCU, Sally Hunt, warned that…
- PrintPrint this page
- Share
