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22 December 2021
Sexual violence is endemic in the UK's university and college workplaces and employers must do more to tackle it, a groundbreaking report has outlined today. One…
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27 July 2021
UCU has welcomed Labour joining the union's calls for students to be prioritised for vaccines In its ' post-16 education recovery principles ' launched last week,…
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26 July 2021
UCU has today responded to reports that the UK government has considered compulsory vaccines for students UCU general secretary Jo Grady said 'Lurching from complacency…
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23 July 2021
UCU has today issued a stark warning to governments across the UK that the chaos experienced by students in university and colleges last year is set to be repeated,…
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1 February 2021
UCU today said threats by the University of Liverpool to cut research-active staff in its Faculty of Health and Life Sciences would be disastrous during Covid-19.…
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2 October 2020
Manchester Metropolitan locked down 1,700 students on Friday night Last Friday night, Manchester Metropolitan University told around 1,700 students to self-isolate…
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1 October 2020
Manchester Metropolitan University vice-chancellor Professor Malcolm Press should resign immediately over his bungled handling of the Covid-19 crisis at the university,…
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1 October 2020
A group of MPs from across Leeds have called on the University of Leeds to move teaching online in an effort to stem the developing Covid crisis at universities.…
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1 October 2020
In a joint statement, UCU and the National Union of Students (NUS) have called for online working, students to be allowed to return home if they wish and funding…
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30 September 2020
Firefighters and education staff have warned universities that it is "dangerous and illegal" to block or lock fire exits, after pictures emerged of a locked fire…
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