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19 May 2011
UCU Scotland welcomes the re-appointment of Mike Russell as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning. Mike Russell has been responsible for higher…
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18 May 2011
UCU announced today that it's ending its dispute with Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), after the university agreed to drop its threat of compulsory redundancies.…
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17 May 2011
Deputy prime minister's warm words cannot mask his government's policies. As the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, joins social mobility experts from across the…
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11 May 2011
UCU today warned that universities could face a major programme of sustained industrial action. An increasingly bitter row over the future of staff pensions looks…
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10 May 2011
UCU today warned the government against encouraging the growth of for-profit providers, after it was revealed that Kaplan Higher Education, who runs courses at…
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10 May 2011
The UCU said today that plans to allow wealthy students to buy places at university for highly increased fees highlighted the mess the government's fees policy…
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5 May 2011
Staff at the University of Strathclyde will tomorrow lead protests against proposed cuts to services and the threat to over 100 jobs, as the University Court -…
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5 May 2011
UCU today backed calls for tighter regulation of for-profit education providers. Responding to a new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), which…
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24 April 2011
The STUC today passed a motion condemning the decision by Robert Gordon University (RGU) to derecognise UCU and Unite trade unions. The derecognition means that…
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19 April 2011
On the day of the deadline for universities to submit their proposed new tuition fees, UCU today said the clear trend to charge the full £9,000 or very close to…
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