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6 December 2017
Bath Spa University paid vice-chancellor Professor Christina Slade £808,000 last year (2016/17 academic year) reports Times Higher Education . The extraordinary…
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5 December 2017
Ulster University must pay 143 former staff 90 days' pay each after tribunal ruled it broke employment law in a 2015 redundancy process The staff left the university…
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5 December 2017
The National Union of Students (NUS) has today called on university leaders to engage in negotiations to end a dispute over pensions which could see students caught…
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30 November 2017
Staff in some of the UK's most elite universities will see the value of their retirement income drop by as much as £200,000 if hardline proposals from universities…
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28 November 2017
Proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) would have "serious consequences" for affected universities and alternative approaches should be…
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20 November 2017
Just days after announcing that 75 lecturers' jobs are at risk at the University of Southampton, it has been revealed that the university is advertising for…
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17 November 2017
UCU has warned of chaos in universities as lectures and classes are cancelled in the new year if a row over changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)…
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31 October 2017
Commenting on the sentencing of former dean of the faculty of education at Edge Hill University, Robert Smedley, and his partner Christopher Joynson for five years…
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27 October 2017
Academic freedom row as MP demands list of Brexit professors Responding to news on Tuesday that Conservative whip Chris Heaton-Harris MP had written to universities…
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20 October 2017
Commenting on guilty verdicts handed down to two Edge Hill University managers , UCU said the university had serious questions to answer about its governance structures.…
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