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17 June 2008
The government's response to a highly critical parliamentary committee report on cuts in funding for second-time higher education students was arrogant and contradictory,…
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12 June 2008
UCU today announced that it has reached an interim agreement with Keele University over the current dispute involving the School of Economic and Management Studies…
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12 June 2008
UCU said today that Sandwell College will face probable strike action if it does not reverse plans to axe GCSE and A-level courses. Up to 40 jobs are at risk under…
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9 June 2008
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU, will this afternoon launch a stinging attack on the private sector's involvement in public services and warn the government…
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9 June 2008
UCU said today that it will be fighting compulsory redundancy in the computing department at Liverpool Hope University. UCU members at the institution are unconvinced…
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6 June 2008
College lecturers in London, members of UCU, will take strike action on 9 June. And further action across England may follow in September if employers don't improve…
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6 June 2008
Negotiators from the six further education trade unions, ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, Unison, Unite representing 250,000 staff have rejected an offer from the employers'…
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6 June 2008
Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from UCU. The union warned today that unless…
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5 June 2008
UCU has successfully won a permanent contract for a researcher at the University of Aberdeen who had been employed on a succession of fixed-term contracts for nine…
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5 June 2008
UCU Scotland today condemned the decline in the proportion of higher education students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Scotland, and called for greater vision…
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