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12 February 2009
Reading University is under fire over plans to axe its School of Health and Social Care. Critics have slammed moves to shut a department that produces social workers…
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21 January 2009
UCU today slammed plans from Plymouth University to splurge £2.5 million on improvements to a local swimming pool, as it considers compulsory redundancies among…
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27 October 2008
An esteemed support service for hundreds of dyslexic college students is set to lose more than half of its staff after the deadline passed for them to sign up to…
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18 September 2008
UCU today blamed financial mismanagement at the University of Plymouth for the announcement of over 100 academic staff redundancies. The union said it was disingenuous…
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4 September 2008
UCU said today that a key ruling on university rules sent a clear message to all institutions that they cannot ride roughshod over regulation and warned any that…
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29 July 2008
Staff at the University of Wales, Lampeter, are protesting today over proposed job cuts. The protestors also warned that if the University does not halt plans for…
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25 June 2008
The nomination of Hereford Royal National College for the Blind as one of the sites for the 2012 Paralympics has been received somewhat sceptically by UCU. While…
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17 June 2008
The government's response to a highly critical parliamentary committee report on cuts in funding for second-time higher education students was arrogant and contradictory,…
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12 June 2008
UCU today announced that it has reached an interim agreement with Keele University over the current dispute involving the School of Economic and Management Studies…
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12 June 2008
UCU said today that Sandwell College will face probable strike action if it does not reverse plans to axe GCSE and A-level courses. Up to 40 jobs are at risk under…
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