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3 February 2011
University to face local strike action for the first time in its history over restructure plans Members of UCU at the University of West England (UWE) today announced…
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28 January 2011
UCU today accused East Durham College of breaking the law as it looks to axe 73 staff. The union says the college has a legal duty to consult with recognised unions…
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21 January 2011
Staff at Liverpool Hope University today refused to rule out strike action following confirmation that over 100 jobs are set to be lost at the institution, and…
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13 December 2010
Labour leader Ed Miliband today backed the campaign against the abolition of the education maintenance allowance. In an interview with the Save EMA campaign, the…
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13 December 2010
Students, staff and trade unions are uniting for a day of action on Monday as part of their campaign to save the education maintenance allowance (EMA). Colleges…
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24 November 2010
UCU has won a significant legal victory against the University of Stirling. The Glasgow Employment Tribunal ruled that the university broke the law by failing to…
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2 November 2010
Radical government reforms to shift teacher training away from universities and focus it in schools could be 'fraught with difficulty', a leading expert will warn…
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2 November 2010
Colleges in some of the most deprived areas of England will be the hardest hit if the government scraps the educational maintenance allowance (EMA), warns analysis…
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1 November 2010
UCU today said that the government could not sell its plans to increase the cost of a university education on the back of 'specious graduate pay premiums.' The…
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27 October 2010
A campaign has been launched to save the country's only independent School of Pharmacy, which counts drug discovery and gene therapy amongst its work, from merger…
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