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6 July 2017
UCU today welcomed plans from the Labour party to invest in a 'National Education Service' modelled on the NHS. The union said the proposals, which will allow adults…
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5 July 2017
Commenting on a new report released today from the Institute for Fiscal Studies illustrating the effects of changes to higher education finance since 2012, UCU…
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3 July 2017
Commenting on the findings of a report looking at the controversial anti-terror programme 'Prevent' , UCU said the government should conduct proper research into…
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30 June 2017
UCU criticises government's plans for EU citizens UCU general secretary Sally Hunt this week criticised government proposals for EU citizens' rights post-Brexit,…
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29 June 2017
Following news that the University of Manchester has appointed George Osborne as an honorary professor of economics, UCU said it thought the university's decision…
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27 June 2017
Two decades of government efforts to improve social mobility have failed to deliver enough progress in reducing the gap between Britain's "haves and have nots",…
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23 June 2017
UCU criticises teaching excellence rankings for failing to rank teaching excellence The much-maligned Teaching Excellence Framework rankings were finally revealed…
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22 June 2017
Responding to the results of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) published today, UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'The Teaching Excellence Framework…
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20 June 2017
Staff at the University of Leeds will take strike action on Thursday to disrupt an open day in a row over plans to give managers new powers to sack staff. UCU members…
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20 June 2017
As staff walk out on strike, Laura Smith MP urges Manchester Metropolitan University to halt redundancies and get back round the table with UCU Former Metropolitan…
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