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18 February 2008
Members of UCU at Keele University will be striking on Thursday 21 February after they voted overwhelmingly in favour of the action and 'action short of a strike'…
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25 January 2008
UCU today hit out at government plans to change the way university courses are funded. Responding to news that the Higher Education Funding Council for England…
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25 January 2008
UCU members at a land-based college in Yorkshire have begun campaigning to save jobs after learning that the equivalent of ten full-time posts are to be axed. The…
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21 January 2008
UCU will be protesting at Keele University this evening as Keele University chancellor, Professor Sir David Weatherall, delivers a lecture on medicine. The protestors…
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11 December 2007
Keele University's council has approved a plan to close most of the School of Economic and Management Studies' current programmes in management, economics and industrial…
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17 October 2007
Lecturers in Bournemouth have expressed outrage and distanced themselves from comments made by the university vice-chancellor, Paul Curran, regarding the state…
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5 October 2007
Sandwell College, in the Midlands, is sacrificing the breadth of its curriculum, cutting courses vital to the local community, while increasing its bureaucracy…
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3 October 2007
UCU members at Craven College have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action after experiencing a pay cut throughout the last year because the college refused…
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24 September 2007
On 21 September the board of Bournemouth University approved the compulsory redundancy of 50 academic posts. These are on top of some 70 posts lost through voluntary…
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13 September 2007
UCU today warned that recent departmental closures in strategic subjects like the sciences must not be allowed to continue if the UK wants to ensure future students…
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