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18 October 2007
Government plans to axe degree funding for certain students contradict its own lifelong learning agenda and will hit universities offering courses to adults and…
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18 October 2007
UCU today warned that attempts to shift the burden of risk on to members of the higher education pension system and force them to contribute more would be seen…
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17 October 2007
Lecturers in Bournemouth have expressed outrage and distanced themselves from comments made by the university vice-chancellor, Paul Curran, regarding the state…
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5 October 2007
UCU has welcomed government plans to invest in science and technology and the teaching of STEM subjects, outlined in the government's response to a review of science…
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1 October 2007
Four more teacher trade unionists have been murdered in recent weeks in the Colombian department of Antioquia, taking to over 1,000 lives the union death toll in…
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28 September 2007
UCU announced today that, after seeking legal advice, an academic boycott of Israel would be unlawful and cannot be implemented. Members of the union's strategy…
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25 September 2007
UCU today said that staff needed to be recognised for the extra 'unscheduled' work outside of teaching hours they put in with their students. A Higher Education…
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24 September 2007
On 21 September the board of Bournemouth University approved the compulsory redundancy of 50 academic posts. These are on top of some 70 posts lost through voluntary…
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13 September 2007
UCU president, Linda Newman, urged delegates at the TUC Congress in Brighton to back the union's fight against privatisation in further and higher education. Speaking…
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13 September 2007
UCU today warned that recent departmental closures in strategic subjects like the sciences must not be allowed to continue if the UK wants to ensure future students…
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