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15 September 2006
Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are expected to be shut down next Tuesday as a result of more strike action by lecturers. This will be the third…
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12 September 2006
UCU has welcomed today's call from the Education and Skills Committee for the government to clear up its confusing division between college courses that lead to…
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1 September 2006
UCU has today called for new legal requirements to bring about a sea-change in workplace training. This follows the publication of a new TUC report, 2020 vision…
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24 August 2006
The first open competition for the provision of 16-19 vocational learning has raised fears amongst college lecturers that it could be the start of a creeping privatisation…
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17 August 2006
Commenting on today's A-level results, University and College Union joint general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Today should be a day for celebration for the thousands…
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11 August 2006
Staff at a Hertfordshire college have been spared from the Hobson's choice of taking a pay cut or redundancy, after successful negotiations between the University…
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28 July 2006
After lobbying by UCU, prison educators have won guarantees that the cost and value of their pension will remain effectively unchanged despite a change of employer.…
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28 July 2006
Lecturers at Stoke on Trent College will begin continuous industrial action on Monday (July 31) in protest at their management's plans to press ahead with up to…
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26 July 2006
Many prison educators - the key to reducing prisoner reoffending, which costs the UK £11 billion a year* - may quit their jobs if their new employers worsen their…
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14 July 2006
UCU has welcomed the announcement by secretary of state Alan Johnson, that the Mayor of London will be given powers to produce and promote a strategy for developing…
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