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1 February 2018
The incoming principal at Edinburgh University, Professor Peter Mathieson, has accepted a 33% salary hike as part of a welcome package worth £410,000 . UCU said…
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7 December 2017
Universities minister Jo Johnson has told the BBC that senior pay in universities will be brought under control by new regulations to be brought in next year. UCU…
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6 December 2017
Bath Spa University paid vice-chancellor Professor Christina Slade £808,000 last year (2016/17 academic year) reports Times Higher Education . The extraordinary…
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5 December 2017
Ulster University must pay 143 former staff 90 days' pay each after tribunal ruled it broke employment law in a 2015 redundancy process The staff left the university…
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1 December 2017
Controversial University of Southampton vice-chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden has been accused of insulting staff and being out of touch after it was revealed…
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29 November 2017
Commenting on the resignation of Dame Glynis Breakwell , the University and College Union (UCU) said her position had become untenable and the announcement had…
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28 November 2017
Proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) would have "serious consequences" for affected universities and alternative approaches should be…
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23 November 2017
Staff disappointed that vice-chancellor survives a vote of no-confidence at senate meeting after staff unanimously call for her to go UCU said that while the vice-chancellor…
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20 November 2017
Staff at the University of Bath have called on the vice-chancellor and board of governors to resign in the wake of a damning report into senior pay and governance…
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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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