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26 April 2013
UCU said today that further education colleges needed to be at the heart of plans for transferring skills budgets to Local Enterprise Partnerships. Responding to…
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25 April 2013
Unions* representing staff in English further education colleges said a 0.5% pay offer made at the first round of pay negotiations yesterday was not acceptable.…
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23 April 2013
Defending education and protecting funding for the knowledge economy are key themes of this year's UCU annual congress, where delegates will be encouraged to promote…
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17 April 2013
Responding to unemployment figures released today, UCU said the government needed to improve access to education and jobs, especially for young people. The number…
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3 April 2013
UCU said today (Wednesday) that any new money for colleges was to be welcomed, but said far greater investment was required to open up opportunity to the thousands…
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28 March 2013
Much more must be done to encourage sustainable development across education, delegates at a day-long event will say today. The workshop, How can we integrate sustainable…
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25 March 2013
Education staff who work in prisons have considerably higher levels of work-related stress than British workers in general, a new report commissioned by UCU has…
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22 March 2013
Staff at Barnet and Southgate College are furious the college is refusing to honour a nationally-agreed pay rise of just 0.7% when it has been revealed that six…
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20 March 2013
Chancellor says education is key long-term policy, but fails to back warm words with investment Education is key to driving growth and ensuring the country can…
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18 March 2013
UCU today said Lord Heseltine's report needed to genuinely embrace democratic collaboration at a local level if people were to access decent education. The recommendations…
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