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15 December 2009
A giant Albert Einstein was in Westminster today for a photo opportunity as part of protests by UCU against plans to change research funding. The giant image of…
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15 December 2009
London Metropolitan University will not receive urgently-needed cash to ease its financial woes if the board of governors does not resign, according to documents…
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11 December 2009
UCU today gave the University of the Arts London (UAL) a Christmas deadline to step back from making job cuts. The union said that the institution faced likely…
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11 December 2009
The ballot of FE college members is now open on whether to take an escalating programme of strike action to achieve an improvement on the 1.5% increase offered…
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9 December 2009
UCU has warned that proposed changes to how teaching in Scottish universities is funded risked delivering inadequate and inaccurate levels of funding. The Scottish…
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8 December 2009
UCU today said that Britain could not afford another repeat of this year's student loans fiasco. Responding to a damning report by Professor Sir Deian Hopkin into…
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6 December 2009
UCU today said that plans to fund a national service-style civilian scheme, paid for by increasing student debt, were absolutely ludicrous. The union said it was…
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4 December 2009
UCU today slammed Manchester College for freezing the pay of its prison education staff. The college provides teachers for 96 institutions throughout the country…
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3 December 2009
The UCU at the University of Cumbria said that it was absolutely outrageous that vice-chancellor, Peter McCaffrey, broke the news of 200 jobs going to students…
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3 December 2009
UCU today called for a national bursary scheme for student financial support. Responding to a report from the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) looking at the impact,…
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