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23 March 2007
UCU joint general secretary, Paul Mackney, today responded to the comments made by skills minister Bill Rammell about changes in government plans for funding of…
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22 March 2007
UCU has responded to the Green Paper 'Raising Expectations: staying in education and training post-16' presented to the House of Commons today by Education Minister…
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22 March 2007
Funding increases for Scottish universities mean that redundancy threats are now entirely unnecessary, said UCU today. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) allocations…
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21 March 2007
Cambridge Regional College (CRC) has announced - once again at very short notice - that it will cease to provide some of its advertised courses, creating confusion…
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21 March 2007
UCU today said the chancellor needed to demonstrate his commitment to all areas of education. The union welcomed the extra money for the education sector, but warned…
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16 March 2007
Members of the Manchester University branch of UCU have slammed university mismanagement and plans for 400 redundancies. At a packed meeting of the lecturers' union,…
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16 March 2007
The UK's newest university, Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, has become embroiled in an age discrimination row after refusing to extend the contract of a 65-year-old…
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15 March 2007
UCU has written to chancellor Gordon Brown urging him to make a special allocation of funds to the DfES to protect courses in ESOL (English for speakers of other…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed UCU. This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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12 March 2007
UCU today responded to a review of foreign language teaching, which recommends lessons should be compulsory for the first time in England's primary schools. UCU…
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