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13 April 2015
UCU is one of the organisations backing a new poster campaign aimed at countering anti-immigrant rhetoric that can be found in some parts of the media and political…
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1 April 2015
UCU today welcomed a commitment from Labour party leader Ed Miliband that workers on zero-hours contracts would have the right to regular employment after 12 weeks.…
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25 March 2015
The business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee has warned that the benefits of a proposed transatlantic trade deal are "impossible to quantify". In…
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19 March 2015
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith is writing to the skills minister, Nick Boles, to urge him to rethink government plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as…
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10 March 2015
UCU has welcomed the Million+ Manifesto for Teacher Education which calls for universities to remain at the heart of teacher training. The union said it supports…
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5 March 2015
Two union members who opposed restructure were put on forced gardening leave, sacked and refused any appeal Members of UCU at the University of Salford are being…
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4 March 2015
Over two-thirds (70%) of Scottish universities refused to send full minutes of the committee that sets their principal's pay, according to a new report released…
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4 March 2015
Report reveals UK vice-chancellors earn £260,000 on average and are spending thousands on luxury flights and hotel accommodation, while universities deny access…
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27 February 2015
People working in education are the group most likely to be putting in unpaid overtime and clocking up the most free hours a week, according to figures released…
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26 February 2015
UCU has warned that cuts of up to a quarter in funding for adult learning courses risks decimating further education provision and leaving millions of the most…
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