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16 December 2010
UCU Scotland welcomes the government commitment that the state should have prime responsibility to fund Scottish universities. The union was responding to a government…
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16 December 2010
Statement by the president and the general secretary Further to events in London surrounding the anti-fees demonstration on Thursday 9 December we have written…
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15 December 2010
Responding to this evening's vote in the House of Lords, which approved government plans to raise tuition fees, UCU described the decision as huge blow to students…
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14 December 2010
Government must heed America warnings, warns UCU UCU said today that encouraging the growth of for-profit companies in higher education risked damaging the UK's…
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14 December 2010
Staff at UK universities have overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes from their employers to their pension schemes. In a ballot of over 31,000 people conducted…
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9 December 2010
UCU said today that there were no winners in plans to lift the cap on fees to replace the money lost through an 80% cut to university teaching budgets. MPs voted…
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9 December 2010
UCU and the National Unions Students (NUS) have today backed a cross-party amendment tabled in parliament to stop the vote to increase university tuition fees.…
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9 December 2010
Students, lecturers and pupils from across Scotland to protest Westminster's fees vote Students from across Scotland will join lecturers, pupils and their communities…
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9 December 2010
As politicians prepare to vote on the level of university tuition fees, new figures reveal that English universities will have to charge average fees of almost…
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8 December 2010
The University of Oxford has today launched a ballot on proposed sweeping changes to the staff pension scheme. The move follows a vote by the university to ensure…
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