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3 August 2007
UCU Scotland praises the decision by the Scottish Government to waive undergraduate university fees for asylum-seekers. Even when refugees meet the criteria for…
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20 July 2007
Responding to university application figures released today by the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), UCU Scotland warned that the decline in the…
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13 June 2007
UCU Scotland is calling for a commitment from the new SNP administration to real terms increases in higher education funding and to build a consensus about student…
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1 June 2007
Lecturers from across the UK today slammed the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Executive and the University of Glasgow for failing to ensure the future of…
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28 May 2007
UCU Scotland has called for increased funding to meet the economic needs of Scotland in their submission to the spending review for the new executive. In a letter…
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23 May 2007
UCU said today that the Scottish Executive must intervene to stop the proposed closure of Glasgow University's Crichton Campus. Glasgow University announced in…
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17 May 2007
UCU has awarded its first two 'Life Changers' grants of £3,000 to a reformed criminal and an eminent criminologist. Joe Baden and Professor Dick Hobbs were voted…
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25 April 2007
UCU Scotland today warned that the decline in the number of applicants from Scotland is a cause of concern, after reviewing university application figures released…
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22 March 2007
Funding increases for Scottish universities mean that redundancy threats are now entirely unnecessary, said UCU today. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) allocations…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed UCU. This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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