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3 December 2008
Staff at a host of universities and further education colleges will be able to check their rights at legal surgeries across the UK today as part of a day of action…
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18 November 2008
UCU today suspended a trade dispute at South Birmingham College (SBC) after the principal, Mike Hopkins, assured the union that no unannounced classroom observations…
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14 November 2008
UCU today declared a dispute at South Birmingham College (SBC) after college bosses were accused of trying to force through unannounced lesson observations. The…
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11 November 2008
UCU members at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) will today be lobbying a ceremony at the city's Royal Concert Hall to commemorate the installation of Sir Michael…
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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 August 2008
The management of Bishop Auckland College have issued notice of their intention to dismiss all staff who are not prepared to accept new terms and conditions of…
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5 June 2008
UCU has successfully won a permanent contract for a researcher at the University of Aberdeen who had been employed on a succession of fixed-term contracts for nine…
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5 March 2008
A lecturer at a further education college in Northern Ireland has won an employment tribunal ruling that she was treated unlawfully because her work is part-time.…
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3 March 2008
Part-time associate lecturers at the Open University have won new health and safety rights after representations by UCU union reps. Most part-time lecturers mark…
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22 November 2007
A survey of currently advertised research jobs in UK universities by UCU shows that casualised short-term contracts remain the norm for staff beginning their careers…
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