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3 May 2007
Only a third of UK universities have a student to staff ratio under the international average UCU today said it was unacceptable that the student to staff ratio…
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30 April 2007
UCU today welcomed the Education and Skills Committee's report on the Bologna process. The aims of the Bologna Process are to create greater mobility between European…
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25 April 2007
UCU Scotland today warned that the decline in the number of applicants from Scotland is a cause of concern, after reviewing university application figures released…
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25 April 2007
Responding to university application figures released today by the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), UCU warned government and universities not…
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24 April 2007
The privatisation of university services, cuts in adult education, bullying and academic freedom are some of the issues to be debated by lecturers and academic-related…
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19 April 2007
Ahead of a Lords debate today on the role universities are playing in shaping the future of the UK, the joint general secretary of UCU, Sally Hunt, warned that…
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17 April 2007
UCU joint general secretary, Sally Hunt, today sent letters of condolence to colleagues in America following yesterday's tragic shooting at Virginia Tech. In the…
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10 April 2007
Academics are underpaid and overworked compared with other graduate professions, which is likely to have a knock-on effect on the quality of UK higher education…
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29 March 2007
A flawed scheme to privatise a university department has been rejected by Oxford Brookes University after a vigorous campaign by staff to defend educational quality…
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26 March 2007
UCU today responded to figures released this morning from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) on the number of foreign students at UK universities and…
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