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6 June 2007
UCU today demanded the government stops cuts to the education and training budgets in the National Health Service, following the announcement of the NHS end of…
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4 June 2007
In response to proposals by Cardiff University to make 22 academic and other staff redundant, UCU at Cardiff released a statement today rejecting compulsory redundancies…
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1 June 2007
Lecturers from across the UK today slammed the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Executive and the University of Glasgow for failing to ensure the future of…
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31 May 2007
Paul Mackney, joint general secretary of UCU, today said many of the government's education policies are not based on evidence but on ill considered 'fag packet'…
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30 May 2007
Delegates at the inaugural UCU congress voted this afternoon in favour of a motion calling for the circulation of 'the full text of the Palestinian boycott call…
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30 May 2007
University and college lecturers this morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for 'extremism'. The…
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30 May 2007
Government education policy is a catalogue of misaligned objectives which are damaging the education system, Britain's standing abroad, social cohesion and the…
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28 May 2007
UCU Scotland has called for increased funding to meet the economic needs of Scotland in their submission to the spending review for the new executive. In a letter…
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23 May 2007
UCU said today that the Scottish Executive must intervene to stop the proposed closure of Glasgow University's Crichton Campus. Glasgow University announced in…
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17 May 2007
UCU has awarded its first two 'Life Changers' grants of £3,000 to a reformed criminal and an eminent criminologist. Joe Baden and Professor Dick Hobbs were voted…
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