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31 October 2017
Commenting on the sentencing of former dean of the faculty of education at Edge Hill University, Robert Smedley, and his partner Christopher Joynson for five years…
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31 October 2017
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt and Reading East MP Matt Rodda are among the panellists debating the future higher education on Thursday at the University of Reading…
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27 October 2017
Academic freedom row as MP demands list of Brexit professors Responding to news on Tuesday that Conservative whip Chris Heaton-Harris MP had written to universities…
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25 October 2017
Commenting on a report from the Sutton Trust looking at ways to increase the number of pupils attending the most selective universities, UCU said the report was…
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25 October 2017
Staff at the University of Bath have labelled the decision to remove vice-chancellor Dame Glynis Breakwell from the committee that sets her pay a 'worthless stunt.'…
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24 October 2017
Union says letter has "acrid whiff of McCarthyism" about it Responding to news that Conservative whip Chris Heaton-Harris MP has written to universities asking…
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20 October 2017
UCU members overwhelmingly back strike action to defend pensions UCU members this week overwhelmingly backed strike action to defend their pensions. Eighty-seven…
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20 October 2017
Ashton-under-Lyne MP and shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has told the University of Manchester to "get its house in order" and "give workers the respect…
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19 October 2017
The prospect of UK university staff going on strike is a step closer after a national consultative ballot by the University and College Union (UCU) showed overwhelming…
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18 October 2017
The rate of students who drop out of their studies at alternative providers of higher education is 15 percentage points higher than the rest of the sector, warns…
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