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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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6 November 2006
UCU joint general secretary, Sally Hunt, along with Reading MPs Martin Salter and Rob Wilson, today led a delegation of UCU members from Reading University to meet…
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3 November 2006
The joint general secretary of UCU, Sally Hunt, said today that universities must listen to the prime minister's message on the future of UK science. The prime…
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2 November 2006
Bureaucracy, an overwhelming workload, poor management and external interference are the main reasons why nearly two thirds (62 per cent) of lecturers think about…
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2 November 2006
A new UK-wide charity for the further, higher and adult education workforce is launched today by the Teacher Support Network in partnership with the University…
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30 October 2006
Ever increasing bureaucracy is putting enormous pressure on higher education staff, UCU said today in response to a report on the academic experience of students.…
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30 October 2006
UCU joint general secretary, Paul Mackney, today told a rally of thousands of students from across the UK that lecturers fully back their call for an abolition…
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