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28 November 2006
UCU today said that staff and universities must be properly resourced if the UK is to be able to maintain its position as a global leader. Responding to the 'Higher…
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23 November 2006
Today's Times Higher Education Supplement has reported that the education secretary, Alan Johnson, has written to the Higher Education Funding Council for England…
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21 November 2006
Disturbing levels of sleeplessness, anxiety and exhaustion amongst lecturers in colleges and universities will be revealed at a conference on tackling stress at…
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20 November 2006
This afternoon's decision to axe the physics department at Reading University is part of potentially irreversible decline of UK science that could soon see parts…
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17 November 2006
Guidance issued to colleges and universities on combating extremism on campus is an improvement on previous leaked drafts but won't solve all the problems and doesn't…
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15 November 2006
UCU has responded to elements in the Queen's speech regarding further and higher education. UCU joint general secretaries, Paul Mackney and Sally Hunt said: 'UCU…
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15 November 2006
Staff and students at Reading University will be seeking to overturn the proposed closure of Reading University's physics department at a lobby on Monday 20 November.…
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14 November 2006
Britain's newest university, Edge Hill University, at Ormskirk in Lancashire, will soon be the scene of higher education's newest strike unless its vice-chancellor…
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10 November 2006
Colleges and universities are failing to prevent unfair disadvantage to their ethnic minority staff, and should work more closely with unions to resolve this, according…
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8 November 2006
UCU today said that the £75m to support vulnerable university science courses from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) must be made available…
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