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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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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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31 May 2007
College lecturers, at their conference today, urged the government to abandon plans to force youngsters to stay on in education until the age of eighteen. Further…
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30 May 2007
University and college lecturers this morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for 'extremism'. The…
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30 May 2007
Government education policy is a catalogue of misaligned objectives which are damaging the education system, Britain's standing abroad, social cohesion and the…
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23 May 2007
In Adult Learning Week, a female Afghan doctor, Malalai Formouli, will be among teachers and students visiting Downing Street tomorrow to deliver a 12,000 signature…
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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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17 May 2007
UCU has welcomed a report by the Education and Skills Committee which is highly critical of the government's implementation of proposals for 14-19 diplomas. UCU…
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15 May 2007
Bradford College management and UCU today jointly condemned government policies which are jeopardising 124 adult education courses. Courses at risk include art,…
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3 May 2007
Only a third of UK universities have a student to staff ratio under the international average UCU today said it was unacceptable that the student to staff ratio…
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2 May 2007
UCU has welcomed today's decision of the London Employment and Skills Board (LESB) to commit £15 million to protect the teaching of ESOL (English for Speakers of…
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