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17 June 2008
The government's response to a highly critical parliamentary committee report on cuts in funding for second-time higher education students was arrogant and contradictory,…
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12 June 2008
UCU today announced that it has reached an interim agreement with Keele University over the current dispute involving the School of Economic and Management Studies…
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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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