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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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15 March 2011
Members of UCU at colleges and universities across the UK will be on strike on Thursday 24 March in a row over changes to pension schemes, jobs losses and pay cuts.…
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10 March 2011
UCU today said that attacking pensions as gold-plated was lazy and added absolutely nothing to the pensions debate. The union, whose members are set to strike in…
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3 March 2011
Responding to this morning's publication of the Wolf review of vocational education, UCU said young people needed access to a broad curriculum and must not be forced…
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24 February 2011
UCU today warned that government cuts to education and work programmes could do lasting damage to the country, after new figures revealed that the proportion of…
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18 February 2011
Institute for Learning denounced by lecturers as survey finds less than one-fifth believe it fulfils its role • 84% say they would not pay for membership in poll…
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11 February 2011
UCU today hit out at plans to more than double membership fees for the Institute for Learning (IfL) from £30 to £68 and to transfer the cost from the state to the…
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10 February 2011
A week of action to protest against proposed government cuts to the Health and Safety Executive budget is being organised by the Trade Union Co-ordinating Group…
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9 February 2011
UCU today backed calls from the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, for prisoners to be given the right to vote. The union which represents prison educators said…
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7 February 2011
Responding to today's announcement from the government that over 100,000 apprenticeships will be created, UCU warned that thousands of young people could still…
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4 February 2011
Warning comes on same day as Labour leader says that young people will be worse off than their parents The head of UCU, Sally Hunt, today wrote to the education…
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