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9 June 2008
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU, will this afternoon launch a stinging attack on the private sector's involvement in public services and warn the government…
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9 June 2008
UCU said today that it will be fighting compulsory redundancy in the computing department at Liverpool Hope University. UCU members at the institution are unconvinced…
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6 June 2008
Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from UCU. The union warned today that unless…
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5 June 2008
UCU has successfully won a permanent contract for a researcher at the University of Aberdeen who had been employed on a succession of fixed-term contracts for nine…
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5 June 2008
UCU Scotland today condemned the decline in the proportion of higher education students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Scotland, and called for greater vision…
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5 June 2008
UCU today welcomed the slight increase in the proportion of higher education students from disadvantaged backgrounds, but said more needs to be done to widen participation…
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2 June 2008
Minister of State for Higher Education, Bill Rammell, will host a number of events across the country with audiences of UCU members debating academic freedom. The…
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29 May 2008
UCU this morning warned universities that if they didn't honour the third year of the national pay deal they would face the full force of the national union. Delegates…
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28 May 2008
Delegates at UCU Congress this afternoon reaffirmed their commitment to helping international colleagues denied the freedoms they enjoy. A series of motions called…
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28 May 2008
Linda Newman, outgoing president of UCU, told delegates at the union's annual congress today that contradictory government policy exposed problems at the heart…
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