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19 November 2013
Taxpayers have been hit with an £80m bill after private colleges took advantage of state-funded student loans and went on a recruitment drive. This figure was revealed…
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15 November 2013
Talks are set for next week in the pay row between universities and their staff, despite some universities imposing the 1% pay offer the unions have rejected. Representatives…
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14 November 2013
UCU announced today that it will fight plans to axe 75 jobs at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). At a packed meeting last night, UCU members vowed to…
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14 November 2013
Members of UCU at the London School of Economics (LSE) have called on the institution to suspend all joint courses with Peking University in a row over the sacking…
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13 November 2013
Union calls on Southampton University chief to donate strikers' wages to poorest students and to use influence to help resolve nationwide pay row Members of UCU…
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11 November 2013
Nearly a third of Scottish universities pay some of their staff less than the living wage, according to a new report. The findings, from the National Union of Students…
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7 November 2013
UCU today warned against making higher education overly reliant on private sources of funding. A new report on the future of universities' funding concludes that…
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6 November 2013
UCU today added its concerns about teacher training in universities to those voiced by the Universities' Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET). Both organisations…
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4 November 2013
UCU has today written to UCEA, the university employers' negotiating body, calling for urgent talks to resolve an increasingly bitter pay dispute. In the letter…
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4 November 2013
Pay gap between bosses and lowest paid workers of 15:1 is one of biggest in public sector More than half of UK universities pay some of their staff less than the…
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