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7 December 2018
Universities must make tackling the 'unacceptable' race pay gap a priority, UCU said today. The union was responding to a BBC report which revealed that black and…
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6 December 2018
Eight schools and colleges sent as many pupils to Oxford or Cambridge over three years as three-quarters (2,900) of all schools and colleges, according to a report…
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5 December 2018
Responding to the appointment of Chris Skidmore as the universities minister, UCU head of policy and campaigns Matt Waddup said: 'The minister comes in at a crucial…
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3 December 2018
A new project at Heriot-Watt University partnered by UCU Scotland begins today looking to improve the recruitment and retention of disabled academics in the science…
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29 November 2018
Responding to 'Fairer Funding: The case for a graduate levy', published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute, UCU head of policy and campaigns Matt Waddup…
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28 November 2018
The union was commenting after a report from UCAS found that a third (34.4%) of 18 year old applicants from England, Northern Ireland and Wales had received an…
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26 November 2018
UCU today welcomed the pardon of British PhD student Matthew Hedges, who was unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday.…
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23 November 2018
First wave of strikes in English colleges to begin on 28 November UCU members at six English colleges will be taking strike action on Wednesday and Thursday as…
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22 November 2018
UCU members at the University of Birmingham will turn down teaching at the university's Dubai campus as part of protests at the university's failure to stand up…
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21 November 2018
UCU said the government and universities needed to secure stronger assurances on human rights and the treatment of academics working abroad.
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