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5 March 2009
UCU today called on the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to stop using private companies to deliver prison education.…
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5 March 2009
UCU today expressed concerns that science's ability to aid the UK's path to economic recovery could be threatened by new funding arrangements for universities.…
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4 March 2009
UCU said today that a controversial new points-based immigration system will fundamentally taint the UK university brand and damage its standing in the lucrative…
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3 March 2009
UCU said today that Reading University's plans to axe its school of health and care flew in the face of new government plans and made a mockery of both national…
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27 February 2009
University lecturers are doing even more unpaid overtime than last year and far more than the national average, according to new figures from the Trades Union Congress…
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27 February 2009
UCU said today that Reading University must be open about any plans to axe jobs and departments at the university. Worried staff have contacted the union over rumours…
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25 February 2009
UCU said today that teaching had to be properly recognised in our universities as new research revealed that academic staff think teaching should be important when…
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25 February 2009
MPs were this afternoon quizzed by over 500 adult learners over adult education funding at a mass lobby of Parliament organised by the Campaign Alliance for Lifelong…
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25 February 2009
A delegation of senior trade unionists from the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), this week (Saturday 28 February 2009) departed for Palestine and Israel.…
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25 February 2009
The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, will this week face questions from adults who can no longer access education courses…
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