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25 September 2007
UCU today said that staff needed to be recognised for the extra 'unscheduled' work outside of teaching hours they put in with their students. A Higher Education…
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13 September 2007
UCU president, Linda Newman, urged delegates at the TUC Congress in Brighton to back the union's fight against privatisation in further and higher education. Speaking…
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13 September 2007
UCU today warned that recent departmental closures in strategic subjects like the sciences must not be allowed to continue if the UK wants to ensure future students…
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29 June 2007
UCU has urged the government to implement a one year moratorium on changes in entitlement to free courses in ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Today,…
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27 June 2007
Ahead of Gordon Brown becoming prime minister later today, UCU urged the former chancellor to back up his consistent warm words on the importance of education through…
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26 June 2007
UCU today warned against increasing the cost of studying at university. On the day Universities UK (UUK) releases a report assessing the impact of top-up fees on…
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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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12 June 2007
Staff at Hackney Community College will strike tomorrow after talks between the college and UCU failed to resolve the problem of compulsory job losses. In April…
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6 June 2007
UCU today demanded the government stops cuts to the education and training budgets in the National Health Service, following the announcement of the NHS end of…
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4 June 2007
In response to proposals by Cardiff University to make 22 academic and other staff redundant, UCU at Cardiff released a statement today rejecting compulsory redundancies…
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