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9 June 2017
Over a quarter (28%) of the teaching workforce in further education are employed on insecure precarious contracts, with the majority of staff (69%) on hourly-paid…
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2 June 2017
Why universities need real strength and stability In its editorial on Tuesday, the Guardian highlighted how universities are under threat from Brexit, creeping…
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25 May 2017
It will take 40 years to close the academic gender pay gap, warns a new report from UCU. The report reveals that, in 2015/16, UK universities had a 12% overall…
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10 May 2017
The University of Manchester has set out plans to axe 171 jobs, leaving 926 staff uncertain about their future. The university says it wants to cut 140 academic…
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9 May 2017
UCU members at Manchester Metropolitan University will be on strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial action. Four-fifths of UCU members…
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5 May 2017
A dispute at the University of Brighton over job losses, working conditions and union rights is over after members of the University and College Union (UCU) today…
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5 May 2017
Academic pay lower last year than start of the decade The annual Times Higher Education pay survey revealed yesterday that average pay for UK academics was still…
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26 April 2017
The University of Manchester's Students' Union has stepped in at the last minute to host a Manchester Metropolitan University staff meeting tomorrow. The students…
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26 April 2017
UCU said the collapse of a merger between Bury College and the University of Bolton was welcome news, but the problems with the rushed attempted merger should have…
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26 April 2017
Manchester Metropolitan University has slapped a last-minute ban on UCU staff holding a union meeting on campus, as a dispute over job losses intensified. UCU said…
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