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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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17 April 2015
Staff at the University of Surrey could take industrial action later this term in a row over job losses. A ballot of members of UCU at the university opens today…
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15 April 2015
Birmingham Northfield MP Richard Burden will join UCU and the Association of Colleges (AoC) speaking out against cuts to adult education in the West Midlands this…
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15 April 2015
Staff at Lewisham Southwark College will be protesting outside the college's Lewisham Way building this afternoon from 5pm. Members of UCU are angry at plans to…
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13 April 2015
UCU is one of the organisations backing a new poster campaign aimed at countering anti-immigrant rhetoric that can be found in some parts of the media and political…
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9 April 2015
UCU said today that universities opposing plans for better staff and student representatives on their key decision-making bodies are out of touch. The union was…
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9 April 2015
UCU today welcomed commitments from the Labour party to improve careers advice for school children if it wins the election. The union said its own recent report…
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3 April 2015
Commenting on the cancellation of a conference at the University of Southampton entitled International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and…
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1 April 2015
UCU today welcomed a commitment from Labour party leader Ed Miliband that workers on zero-hours contracts would have the right to regular employment after 12 weeks.…
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31 March 2015
Commenting on news that the University of Aberdeen is planning to cut 150 jobs, UCU Scotland said it was a worrying time for staff and that axing jobs would have…
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26 March 2015
Two members of staff have been sacked by the University of Bolton for allegedly leaking information to the press about the vice-chancellor, George Holmes. In addition,…
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