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27 February 2009
UCU said today that Reading University must be open about any plans to axe jobs and departments at the university. Worried staff have contacted the union over rumours…
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25 February 2009
UCU said today that teaching had to be properly recognised in our universities as new research revealed that academic staff think teaching should be important when…
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25 February 2009
A delegation of senior trade unionists from the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), this week (Saturday 28 February 2009) departed for Palestine and Israel.…
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24 February 2009
Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry is among leading lights in the arts world who have attacked the University of Westminster over controversial plans to close its…
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24 February 2009
UCU said today that a more flexible approach to higher education was to be welcomed. However, the union said the government was wrong to suggest that variable top-up…
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17 February 2009
UCU today welcomed the decision by the University of Plymouth to save key academic jobs. The union said it was pleased that the threat of compulsory redundancies…
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16 February 2009
UCU said today that students and universities needed proper government support if the country was to deliver high quality higher education to all those with the…
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13 February 2009
The university's 'Love and Justice' month has also been dismissed as an ill-timed gimmick. Oxford Brookes University has been accused of putting the health of its…
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12 February 2009
Reading University is under fire over plans to axe its School of Health and Social Care. Critics have slammed moves to shut a department that produces social workers…
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11 February 2009
UCU said today that the fact new and recent graduates are competing in the most competitive graduate job market for years, saddled with record levels of debt, was…
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