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15 September 2006
Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are expected to be shut down next Tuesday as a result of more strike action by lecturers. This will be the third…
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12 September 2006
UCU has welcomed today's call from the Education and Skills Committee for the government to clear up its confusing division between college courses that lead to…
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11 September 2006
Age discrimination is rife across our universities. Staff aged over 50 are the unhappiest in their jobs and almost half (43 per cent) would quit now if they could.…
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1 September 2006
UCU has today called for new legal requirements to bring about a sea-change in workplace training. This follows the publication of a new TUC report, 2020 vision…
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24 August 2006
The first open competition for the provision of 16-19 vocational learning has raised fears amongst college lecturers that it could be the start of a creeping privatisation…
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23 August 2006
The results of the second National Student Survey (NSS) released today reveal that around 80 per cent of students are satisfied with their course. UCU joint general…
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17 August 2006
Commenting on today's A-level results, University and College Union joint general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Today should be a day for celebration for the thousands…
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11 August 2006
Staff at a Hertfordshire college have been spared from the Hobson's choice of taking a pay cut or redundancy, after successful negotiations between the University…
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3 August 2006
The number of complaints lodged by students against their universities doubled in 2005, according to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education's…
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28 July 2006
After lobbying by UCU, prison educators have won guarantees that the cost and value of their pension will remain effectively unchanged despite a change of employer.…
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