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30 April 2014
New figures released today show that employers in Britain are using about 1.4m 'zero-hours' contracts The figures , from the Office for National Statistics, show…
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29 April 2014
The number of part-time students in English universities now stands at 139,000 - nearly half the 2010 total of 259,000 students, says a new report from the Higher…
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28 April 2014
Members of UCU in higher education are currently being balloted on whether or not to accept a 2% pay rise from the employers' body the Universities and Colleges…
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28 April 2014
Forcing key issues in further and higher education onto political parties' agendas will be behind debates at UCU's annual conference next month. Delegates from…
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23 April 2014
The University of Salford has announced that it plans to axe all modern foreign languages (MFL) courses after 2017, despite a review which recommended that they…
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16 April 2014
The Universities and Colleges' Employers Association (UCEA) has offered a 2% pay increase for UK higher education staff at the latest round of negotiations. This…
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15 April 2014
Cardiff Metropolitan University is under fire for imposing a bizarre new contract on its professors which includes a clause stating that they may be prevented from…
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15 April 2014
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has announced that the recipients of this year's health and safety award are Dundee University UCU reps Marion Sporing…
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14 April 2014
An e-petition sent to the vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, calling for action to resolve the national higher education pay dispute, has secured…
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11 April 2014
Lectures could be cancelled across the UK after universities said they would not pay staff involved in a marking boycott for any of their other work. The unprecedented…
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