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9 December 2021
UCU has this week written to Northumbria University to raise concerns that an lecturer and disability activist employed by the institution is being victimised by…
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13 October 2021
A UCU spokesperson said: 'UCU supports the statement from UCU Sussex branch which makes clear its opposition to the harassment and bullying of staff and students.…
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14 July 2021
UCU said proposals to end BTECs would harm access to education. The union was responding to plans from government to reform post-16 qualifications. The plans…
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30 June 2021
UCU Scotland welcomed the progress that was made prior to the pandemic on widening access to university education, but said we need to ensure that the good progress…
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22 June 2021
UCU has today criticised a report by the Education Select Committee, branding it a 'weaponising of educational inequalities' after authors claimed use of the term…
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6 May 2021
A report published by UCU, exploring the working conditions of LGBT+ staff in higher education, found that homophobic, biphobic and transphobic discrimination remain…
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31 March 2021
UCU has today condemned the findings of Tony Sewell's Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities as an 'insult' to people in Britain experiencing racism on a daily…
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13 February 2021
In her first speech to UCU's annual congress as general secretary, Jo Grady set out the challenges workers in prison, adult, further and higher education are facing…
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19 January 2021
Commenting on today's figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) on staff in UK universities, UCU said universities needed to take decisive action…
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25 November 2020
UCU has called for robust government action to reverse the growth in insecure work, citing the harsh impact on mothers in the workplace The call came as Maternity…
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