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27 March 2012
UCU today welcomed the news that staff in further education colleges would no longer be forced to pay a fee to do their job. An independent panel said the Institute…
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23 March 2012
UCU says fresh revelations of potential fraud risk bringing offender learning into 'disrepute' Responding to fresh revelations of potential fraud at welfare-to-work…
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21 March 2012
UCU said today that additional cuts to corporation tax^ were not the way to get the UK back on track. The union said corporation tax should rise and the money used…
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2 March 2012
Sally Hunt has today been re-elected as general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), defeating her only opponent Mark Campbell by a margin of 6,835…
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29 February 2012
UCU today called on the government to urgently invest in training and jobs for the UK's low-carbon industries. The union said green investment could provide the…
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27 February 2012
UCU today said that improving access to education and training was a much better way of helping young people find long-term work, than asking them to work for their…
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23 February 2012
UCU today called on the government not to award more contracts for prison education to the beleaguered welfare-to-work company A4e. Despite being subject to criminal…
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15 February 2012
UCU said today that cuts to the number of places at university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment…
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10 February 2012
Members of UCU in the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) will be asked if they are prepared to take further strike action in the continuing row over government changes…
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10 February 2012
Lowest earning students will pay back more than double what they borrow under new college fee regime Students aged over 24 who go on to earn less than the national…
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