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13 March 2008
UCU said today that the results of a survey of vice-chancellors' pay sent out the wrong message to staff. The survey of vice-chancellors' pay from Times Higher…
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11 March 2008
UCU today joined the growing international uproar over the enforced retirement of Sheila Rowbotham, renowned feminist and historian, and currently professor at…
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11 March 2008
UCU has called for an end to government efforts to bring a market into further education, after the collapse of training company Carter & Carter. Carter & Carter…
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11 March 2008
Medical professionals and educators have today warned that a failure to stop Strategic Health Authorities raiding money earmarked for health education and training…
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7 March 2008
UCU today responded to a government announcement that greater academic value will be attached to diplomas by introducing an extended diploma in 2011. University…
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5 March 2008
A lecturer at a further education college in Northern Ireland has won an employment tribunal ruling that she was treated unlawfully because her work is part-time.…
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5 March 2008
UCU has welcomed the final report of The Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning, published today. Kate Heasman, equality official at UCU, represented…
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4 March 2008
UCU's campaign for a better deal for FE staff has received a major boost after the National Union of Teachers agreed to join forces as part of a wider campaign…
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4 March 2008
UCU is to ballot members in all Welsh further education colleges for strike action and non-strike sanctions in a dispute over pay with the Welsh college employers'…
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4 March 2008
UCU has this week responded to the Conservative's plans for prison reform. While welcoming their focus on the rehabilitation of offenders, the union defended the…
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