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19 February 2008
Commenting on reports this morning that universities in financial difficulties are banking on money from increased student fees, UCU warned such a strategy was…
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18 February 2008
Members of UCU at Keele University will be striking on Thursday 21 February after they voted overwhelmingly in favour of the action and 'action short of a strike'…
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15 February 2008
UCU today attacked the latest efforts from university heads to influence its current ballot on the future of pay negotiations. The union said its members, not university…
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14 February 2008
UCU said today it was not surprised a complex system of bursaries and grants and fears over debt were putting students from poor backgrounds off university. The…
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14 February 2008
UCU today said changes in the way university applications are counted must not be used to mask little progress being made in applications from students from lower…
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24 January 2008
UCU today said the 12,000 students who missed out on £19m worth of financial support were let down by an over-complicated bursaries system. A report on access agreements…
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22 January 2008
UCU has welcomed a report out today which explores possible ways of tackling the underattainment of some ethnic minority students and women in higher education.…
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22 January 2008
UCU today said that while it recognised violent extremism was a serious issue the government wanted to tackle, it did not believe that again targeting universities…
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21 January 2008
UCU today said it agreed with government ambitions to increase the number of students in our universities and to widen participation from groups traditionally excluded.…
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21 January 2008
UCU will be protesting at Keele University this evening as Keele University chancellor, Professor Sir David Weatherall, delivers a lecture on medicine. The protestors…
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