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25 November 2014
The next government must look again at student finance and consider radical alternatives to the current system says UCU as it launches its 15-point pre-election…
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24 November 2014
UCU members at Barnsley College will be on strike on Wednesday and Thursday this week (26 and 27 November) in a row over new contracts. Union members will be on…
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21 November 2014
UCU members at the Open University will lobby a meeting of the university's council on Tuesday (25 November) in protest at plans that could see around 700 jobs…
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20 November 2014
Joint statement from Universities UK and UCU The University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK) have confirmed, following discussions yesterday (Wednesday),…
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14 November 2014
Joint UCU/Universities UK statement following the USS Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) held on 13 November 2014 The Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) held yesterday…
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13 November 2014
England and Northern Ireland are propping up an international league table that ranks how many people have professional education and training qualifications, according…
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10 November 2014
UCU has said that simple cost-benefit analysis of teacher training routes doesn't address the long-term threats to university education departments caused by competitive…
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7 November 2014
The University of Aberdeen has joined a growing list of UK universities to criticise damaging plans put forward by the employers' organisation, Universities UK,…
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7 November 2014
The Scottish government today launching a consultation for a planned higher education governance bill next year. Mary Senior, UCU Scotland Official, said: 'UCU…
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6 November 2014
As an assessment and marking boycott affecting over 1.2 million students starts today, UCU has written to the 69 affected universities* and warned of even greater…
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