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21 May 2008
College lecturers in London will take strike action on Monday 9 June unless their employers improve a pay offer of 2.5% for 2008-09. And lecturers throughout England…
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14 May 2008
UCU commented today on the prime minister's legislative programme, including a new Education and Skills Bill UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said: 'UCU welcomes…
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14 May 2008
A private company that took charge of education and training in eight Kent prisons has terminated its contract a year early in the face of a hefty financial loss.…
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14 May 2008
Lecturers at Northampton University today warned that they would fight any job cuts in the history department and called the financial reasoning behind the proposed…
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8 May 2008
Over a hundred Huddersfield students are set to lose out after a college announced it will axe 16 A-level courses because it cannot meet new government targets…
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7 May 2008
Pay, academic freedom, the purpose of education, fighting against privatisation and combating climate change are just some of the topics to be debated by UCU further…
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17 April 2008
UCU has responded to reports today of concerns about the delivery of the government's new diplomas. Sally Hunt, UCU general secretary, said: 'UCU wants the new…
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14 April 2008
UCU today warned against allowing business too great an influence over the content and design of university courses. Responding to the High Level Skills consultation…
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11 April 2008
UCU today welcomed a report from the higher education statistics agency (HESA) that revealed a financially buoyant higher education sector. The union said that…
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3 April 2008
Responding to a report by the Higher Education Policy Institute, UCU has warned that whatever method was used to increase student contributions to the cost of higher…
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