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6 March 2019
While most students are confident their university is in rude financial health, over three-quarters believe the government should step in if their institution were…
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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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1 March 2019
UCU has reacted angrily to news of plans to axe 50 staff at Stockport College and Trafford College. Staff at all three sites in Altrincham, Stretford, and Stockport…
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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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15 February 2019
Deeply unpopular Teaching Excellence Framework not fit for purpose say staff A UCU-commissioned report released yesterday said the Teaching Excellence Framework…
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14 February 2019
The Teaching Excellence Framework (Tef) is deeply unpopular, failing students and not fit for purpose says a UCU report released today. Eight in 10 staff (81%)…
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12 February 2019
UCU has branded a report from the Office for Students (OfS) into senior pay at universities as lightweight and said it exposed the regulator as a 'paper tiger'.
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11 February 2019
Following the resignation of the vice-chancellor of De Montfort University Dominic Shellard, UCU has called for a shake-up of governance at universities. There…
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