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17 June 2015
Staff at Sheffield College are walking out again tomorrow in a row over compulsory redundancies. UCU members based at the college's city centre site will be on…
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17 June 2015
Staff at Lewisham Southwark College are walking out again tomorrow as part of three days of strikes as they step up their campaign against more than 100 job losses…
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17 June 2015
UCU Scotland today welcomed the publication of a bill by the Scottish Government which will introduce new measures to make the governance of higher education institutions…
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15 June 2015
Further education lecturers will no longer be subject to graded lesson observations as Ofsted today confirmed arrangements to bring them in line with school teachers.…
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15 June 2015
Hundreds of people working and studying in further education colleges will take part in a mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday in protest over funding cuts for further…
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12 June 2015
UCU has said that maintenance grants provide crucial support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter higher education, and should be retained. The…
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8 June 2015
Staff at Aberdeen University have today backed plans for industrial action in a dispute over 150 proposed job losses. In the ballot of UCU Scotland members, 73%…
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3 June 2015
Staff at Lewisham Southwark College will be out on strike tomorrow (Thursday) in protest at plans to axe 112 jobs by the end of this term and close the college's…
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2 June 2015
The University of Warwick has abandoned controversial plans to use a scheme called TeachHigher to employ hourly paid teaching and research staff. UCU welcomed the…
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2 June 2015
A south London college failed to make reasonable adjustments for a blind employee, putting him at a "substantial disadvantage" to his peers, an employment tribunal…
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