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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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21 May 2007
Around 50 people supported a UCU rally in Harlow on Saturday 19 May, to protest at the college's plans to impose a new contract with worsened conditions for many…
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11 May 2007
Teaching staff at Harlow College have voted for strike action as part of a campaign to defend their contracts and jobs. The strike vote follows management attempts…
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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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27 April 2007
UCU today welcomed former education minister David Blunkett MP's support for calls for the government to rethink plans to restrict access to free courses in English…
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24 April 2007
On Saturday 28 April, staff and students from North London colleges will demonstrate their opposition to the government's continued cuts in adult education and…
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9 April 2007
Managers at Harlow College gave lecturers an unwelcome Easter present as they left to enjoy their holiday break. Staff were informed that on their return they will…
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21 March 2007
Cambridge Regional College (CRC) has announced - once again at very short notice - that it will cease to provide some of its advertised courses, creating confusion…
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16 March 2007
Members of the Manchester University branch of UCU have slammed university mismanagement and plans for 400 redundancies. At a packed meeting of the lecturers' union,…
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23 February 2007
UCU today called on the university funding body HEFCE to immediately investigate a breach of its own guidance to universities on how to implement new statutory…
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