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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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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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27 October 2010
Lancaster University must pay former members of staff 60 days' salary after UCU won a legal battle over the institution's failure to properly consult about their…
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22 October 2010
UCU today (Friday) said planned cuts to university teaching budgets would have a devastating effect on local businesses. Business schools generate £2 billion in…
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20 October 2010
UCU today warned that massive funding cuts to colleges and universities could lead to institutions being forced to close across the country. Responding to this…
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7 October 2010
UCU today said changes to pension schemes needed proper consultation with fund members if they were to have any legitimacy. On the day John Hutton's public-sector…
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