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5 July 2012
Hairdressing and beauty lecturers at Tyne Met College will find out tomorrow if they are to face to the sack or have their pay cut by as much as £6,000 a year.…
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5 July 2012
The University of Birmingham has announced plans to axe its award-winning Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (IAA), with the loss of 19 jobs. The internationally…
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2 July 2012
UCU said today that universities should pay researchers properly for their work. The union was responding to a job advert seeking an 'honorary research assistant'…
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29 June 2012
UCU members at Leeds City College (LCC) today held lunchtime protests against planned job cuts at the college. Staff at LCC were joined by colleagues from Leeds…
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28 June 2012
The Scottish government has set out plans for a Scottish Code of Good Higher Education Governance. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Michael Russell, cabinet…
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28 June 2012
The number of graduates assumed to be unemployed six months after graduation remains steady in Scottish universities, according to higher education statistics.…
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28 June 2012
The proportion of 16-18-year-olds who were not in education, employment or training in 2011 rose to 8.1%, from 7.5% in 2010, according to the latest government…
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28 June 2012
The number of graduates assumed to be unemployed six months after graduation has doubled in the past five years, according to statistics released today. The figures,…
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27 June 2012
UCU today said that Nick Clegg was right to raise the problem of youth unemployment but warned that unless the government invested more in helping young people…
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26 June 2012
Members of UCU at Salford University are out on strike today in their dispute with the university over compulsory job losses. The union said that, despite 'bizarre…
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