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30 September 2016
Sally Hunt calls for halt to government's higher education reforms Writing in the Guardian letters page in response to an editorial on the government's plans for…
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27 September 2016
UCU has today welcomed the Diamond Review's proposal for greater maintenance support for Welsh university students, but expressed regret that it proposes a new…
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27 September 2016
Coventry University is today being accused of employing shameful employment practices and moving staff around a network of subsidiary companies to avoid having…
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23 September 2016
A look back at some of the week's news Colleges and universities have to admit there is a problem with insecure contracts Speaking on Radio 4's flagship consumer…
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19 September 2016
Staff working at one of Coventry University's subsidiary companies now finally have the right to be represented collectively by a trade union. Seventy teachers…
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19 September 2016
UCU today said it wanted guarantees that students at a new college, formed by the merger of South Tyneside and Tyne Metropolitan colleges, could still expect a…
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16 September 2016
A look back at some of the week's news Smartest students could be priced out by rising university costs, warns international report The Organisation for Economic…
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16 September 2016
It was a busy time for UCU delegates at the 148th annual TUC congress in Brighton this week. On Sunday evening UCU vice-president Joanna de Groot warned that pensions…
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8 September 2016
UCU members at Hull College have today announced an official dispute following the college's plans to make over 100 redundancies . The news comes on top of recent…
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8 September 2016
UCU said today that there needed to be better information collected on the number of people on zero-hours contracts as new figures suggested the number employed…
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