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6 March 2019
While most students are confident their university is in rude financial health, over three-quarters believe the government should step in if their institution were…
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6 March 2019
A widening participation officer from the University of Leeds has been elected national president of UCU. Vicky Blake will serve as vice-president from May and…
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1 March 2019
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt resigns for health reasons UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has resigned for health reasons. The union's national executive committee…
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28 February 2019
UCU Scotland has responded to the Scottish Funding Council's announcement of the indicative funding allocations for universities for 2019/20.
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22 February 2019
Angela Rayner tells UCU members free-market experiment in higher education has failed Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner was among the speakers at UCU's annual…
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20 February 2019
Responding to a report from the all-party parliamentary group on social mobility, UCU said investment across the board was required if students from all backgrounds…
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14 February 2019
The Teaching Excellence Framework (Tef) is deeply unpopular, failing students and not fit for purpose says a UCU report released today. Eight in 10 staff (81%)…
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13 February 2019
UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. Members are being asked to back both strike action and action short…
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12 February 2019
A strike scheduled for tomorrow at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University (QMU) has been called off after the university and UCU reached an agreement on jobs and…
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12 February 2019
UCU has branded a report from the Office for Students (OfS) into senior pay at universities as lightweight and said it exposed the regulator as a 'paper tiger'.
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