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24 November 2011
UCU said today that the government had to urgently do more to help young people, as official figures revealed that almost one in five 16-24-year-olds (1,163,000)…
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16 November 2011
UCU said today that an eighth successive monthly increase in youth unemployment figures had to prompt the government to deliver policies that would help the more…
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10 November 2011
Union says select committee right to highlight dangers of for-profit higher education providers and criticise delays to white paper UCU today backed calls for the…
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8 November 2011
UCU said today that government plans to shake up teacher training risked decimating the professionalism of teaching. The union was responding to plans from education…
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4 November 2011
UCU today criticised Queen Mary, University of London after it announced plans to axe around 140 jobs, despite a 27% increase in applications to medical courses…
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26 October 2011
Thousands of members of the UCU and other education trade unions will descend on parliament today to lobby their MPs about potential changes to their pensions.…
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28 September 2011
Staff at Middlesex University will be on strike on Tuesday 4 October unless urgent talks can resolve an increasingly bitter dispute over job cuts and changes to…
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21 September 2011
Members of UCU at Middlesex University today voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a row over job cuts and changes to staff terms and conditions. Four-fifths…
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20 September 2011
The playwright, Sir Tom Stoppard, will present a petition demanding ring-fenced funding for vulnerable modern languages to the Scottish Parliament today at 2pm.…
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14 September 2011
UCU today said it will be joining other unions in a day of action to defend pensions on 30 November. The union, which was one of four that took strike action in…
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