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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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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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7 August 2007
A report by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) into whether Harlow College has enough capacity to meet its September teaching needs - after the loss of around…
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29 June 2007
A staffing crisis is set to follow the mass departure of teaching staff from Harlow College. Despite efforts by UCU the college management has failed to provide…
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13 June 2007
Lecturers at Harlow College are holding a rally this lunchtime as part of their ongoing strike action this week. Angry lecturers will congregate outside the gates…
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11 June 2007
Lecturers at Harlow College today begin a three day strike in resistance to the imposition of a new, unnegotiated college plan which lecturers - and students -…
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1 June 2007
Bournemouth University was taken to task today by lecturers at the inaugural UCU congress. Delegates from across the UK backed a motion from staff at Bournemouth…
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1 June 2007
UCU has called on Harlow College to engage in talks to settle the dispute at the college, instead of hiring public relations consultants and engaging in a media…
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23 May 2007
Lecturers at Harlow College, members of UCU, will be on picket lines outside the college's main entrances tomorrow, Thursday 24 May, at the start of two day strike…
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