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24 March 2020
UCU has welcomed the move to suspend prison education as part of a wider prison lockdown in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Her Majesty's Prison and Probation…
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24 March 2020
Around two-thirds of prison education staff (63%) say hand washing facilities in their prisons are inadequate, despite government guidance which says regular hand…
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20 March 2020
Government plans to create grades for students who exams are cancelled this summer must take into account the barriers that students from disadvantaged backgrounds…
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13 March 2020
Five-day walkouts at UK universities It was a full week of disruption, pickets and demonstrations at dozens of UK universities this week as UCU strike action entered…
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28 February 2020
Universities trying to intimidate students not to support striking staff Students who have backed striking staff have been threatened with punitive action by universities,…
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21 February 2020
Solid support for strikes as students call on university heads to do more to solve disputes Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses…
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7 February 2020
Fourteen strike days at 74 UK universities in February and March UCU members at 74 UK universities will walk out for 14 days in February and March . The action…
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5 February 2020
Colleges will be required to provide key information about their workforce in the future, under plans announced today by the Department for Education. The move,…
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31 January 2020
Ballot results mean 74 universities could now be hit with industrial action The number of UK universities that could be hit with strike action this term now stands…
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28 January 2020
The UK should stop treating migrants as 'commodities to be measured', UCU said today. The union was responding to a new report from the Migration Advisory Committee…
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