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18 September 2020
An associate professor of educational leadership from the University of Warwick was elected national president of UCU. Dr Justine Mercer will first serve as vice-president…
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16 September 2020
Union says institutions must have plans in place to deal with the Covid-19 threat as it launches system to allow members to directly relay their concerns The union…
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14 September 2020
A second Covid wave is preventable if ministers and universities follow the science and move as much work at colleges and universities as possible online, said…
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11 September 2020
Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana has called on Warwick and Coventry universities to move teaching online and abandon plans for wider reopening of campuses.
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10 September 2020
UCU will ask Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jenny Harries on Thursday 10 September if she thinks that colleges and universities should move their learning online…
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9 September 2020
Boris Johnson should be working to prevent unnecessary Covid outbreaks, not creating the conditions for them. UCU said the prime minister's plan to force students…
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7 September 2020
UCU says ministers and universities need to take control of the threats to public health associated with a mass return to university campuses, and not try and preemptively…
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4 September 2020
UCU said the government needed to listen the findings in the report on Covid in higher education published by its Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).…
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3 September 2020
Commenting on guidance released by the Scottish government regarding the reopening university campuses, UCU Scotland said remote learning and working had to be…
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29 August 2020
Universities must scrap plans to reopen campuses next month in order to prevent a major public health crisis, said UCU today. The union fears that the migration…
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