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14 February 2008
UCU today said changes in the way university applications are counted must not be used to mask little progress being made in applications from students from lower…
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11 February 2008
Commenting on draft government guidelines to tackle potential violent extremism in UK colleges, UCU welcomed the fact that the document was still at the consultation…
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8 February 2008
UCU has joined the TUC by calling on the UK government to support a bill giving agency workers legal equal treatment rights at work, and save temporary workers…
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31 January 2008
UCU this week responded to the government's plans for a major expansion of apprenticeships and reforms of welfare policies to encourage the inactive to get new…
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30 January 2008
UCU, with other unions in further education, has submitted a joint pay claim for 2008-9 calling for a 6% increase or £1500, whichever is the greater. UCU members…
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28 January 2008
UCU has responded to the news that McDonald's has been given official awarding body status to develop and award its own qualifications. UCU general secretary, Sally…
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25 January 2008
UCU today hit out at government plans to change the way university courses are funded. Responding to news that the Higher Education Funding Council for England…
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25 January 2008
UCU members at a land-based college in Yorkshire have begun campaigning to save jobs after learning that the equivalent of ten full-time posts are to be axed. The…
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24 January 2008
UCU's branch at the University of Northumbria (UNN) has arranged for the 'Anne Frank - A history for today' exhibition to be displayed at UNN for all of this week,…
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24 January 2008
UCU today said the 12,000 students who missed out on £19m worth of financial support were let down by an over-complicated bursaries system. A report on access agreements…
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