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6 March 2019
Staff and students at Newcastle College will be celebrating International Women's Day as a pioneering initiative to ensure students have access to free sanitary…
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1 March 2019
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt resigns for health reasons UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has resigned for health reasons. The union's national executive committee…
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22 February 2019
Angela Rayner tells UCU members free-market experiment in higher education has failed Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner was among the speakers at UCU's annual…
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20 February 2019
Responding to a report from the all-party parliamentary group on social mobility, UCU said investment across the board was required if students from all backgrounds…
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13 February 2019
UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. Members are being asked to back both strike action and action short…
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29 January 2019
The report, from the Social Mobility Commission, says that people from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds are the least likely to receive adult skills investment,…
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25 January 2019
Strikes to hit 15 English colleges from Tuesday Fifteen colleges in England will be hit with two-day strikes next week in a continuing row over pay. Writing for…
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25 January 2019
UCU members at City of Wolverhampton College have been given a boost ahead of their two-day walkout over pay next week as local MP Eleanor Smith has given them…
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25 January 2019
Over 4,000 associate lecturers at the Open University will have better job security and rights after members voted to accept a permanent contract. An overwhelming…
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24 January 2019
Responding to warnings from the Office for Students (OfS) to universities over their use of unconditional offers, UCU said the best solution was to overhaul how…
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