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7 March 2008
UCU today responded to a government announcement that greater academic value will be attached to diplomas by introducing an extended diploma in 2011. University…
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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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5 March 2008
UCU has welcomed the final report of The Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning, published today. Kate Heasman, equality official at UCU, represented…
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4 March 2008
UCU's campaign for a better deal for FE staff has received a major boost after the National Union of Teachers agreed to join forces as part of a wider campaign…
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4 March 2008
UCU is to ballot members in all Welsh further education colleges for strike action and non-strike sanctions in a dispute over pay with the Welsh college employers'…
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4 March 2008
UCU has this week responded to the Conservative's plans for prison reform. While welcoming their focus on the rehabilitation of offenders, the union defended the…
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3 March 2008
UCU today welcomed ideas to open up HE to more of the population but warned that contradictory government funding policy and the high price of studying could severely…
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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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29 February 2008
UCU today called on university employers' representatives to come back to the negotiating table to resolve differences over the mechanics of future negotiating…
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28 February 2008
Members of UCU have voted not to accept proposed changes to the way the union would negotiate future higher education pay deals. 60.8% of UCU members, who voted,…
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