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21 May 2014
Over 120 jobs are under threat at King's College London (KCL) at a time when the institution is engaged in a £400m renewal of its estate. King's is looking to reduce…
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21 May 2014
The Dundee University branch of UCU has today begun balloting members for strike action over the university's plans to cut staff numbers by up to 120. The ballot…
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20 May 2014
The executive body of the Open University (OU) has agreed to implement plans to close the university's regional centre in East Grinstead. The plans announced on…
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15 May 2014
UCU today named and shamed the minority of UK universities that are deducting a full day's pay from staff who took two hours' strike action during the recent pay…
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13 May 2014
Glyndŵr University is reportedly looking to fund the takeover of a Wrexham community centre at a time when it is axing staff because of a large operating deficit.…
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6 May 2014
• Millions of students taught by staff with few rights or facilities • 30% of college teachers and 17% of university teachers on zero-hours contracts • 67% of university…
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2 May 2014
A proposed marking boycott of university students' work in the UK is off after members of UCU voted overwhelmingly to accept a 2% pay offer from the employers.…
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30 April 2014
Students and staff will take their protests against plans to close language degrees at the University of Salford to an influential meeting tomorrow. Members of…
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30 April 2014
New figures released today show that employers in Britain are using about 1.4m 'zero-hours' contracts The figures , from the Office for National Statistics, show…
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29 April 2014
The number of part-time students in English universities now stands at 139,000 - nearly half the 2010 total of 259,000 students, says a new report from the Higher…
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