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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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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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3 December 2009
Nobel laureates and top academics back UCU campaign to defend research The academic community gave its clearest signal yet today that it was fighting back against…
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2 December 2009
UCU today warned the University of Sussex that it could face strike action if it pressed ahead with controversial plans to axe more than 100 jobs. At an emergency…
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2 December 2009
UCU has welcomed the appointment of Michael Russell as Scotland's new Cabinet Secretary for Education. The appointment comes on the eve of UCU's Holyrood lobby…
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