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  • 7 October 2016

    UCU accuses Home Office of 'pulling up the drawbridge' for overseas students UCU this week condemned proposals  to restrict international recruitment, announced…

  • 5 October 2016

    Staff at Hull College will walk out next Thursday (13 October) in an increasingly bitter row over redundancies at the college. The one day strike has been announced…

  • 4 October 2016

    UCU has condemned new proposals on international student recruitment announced by the home secretary at the Conservative Party conference today. UCU says the proposed…

  • 30 September 2016

    Members of UCU at Hull College have voted in support of strike action over planned redundancies. More than eight in ten members (86%) who voted backed strike action,…

  • 30 September 2016

    Sally Hunt calls for halt to government's higher education reforms Writing in the Guardian letters page in response to an editorial on the government's plans for…

  • 27 September 2016

    UCU has today welcomed the Diamond Review's proposal for greater maintenance support for Welsh university students, but expressed regret that it proposes a new…

  • 27 September 2016

    Coventry University is today being accused of employing shameful employment practices and moving staff around a network of subsidiary companies to avoid having…

  • 23 September 2016

    A look back at some of the week's news Colleges and universities have to admit there is a problem with insecure contracts Speaking on Radio 4's flagship consumer…

  • 21 September 2016

    Members of UCU at Hull College are being balloted for strike action in a row over job losses. The college plans to make 141 redundancies, which come on top of recent…

  • 19 September 2016

    Staff working at one of Coventry University's subsidiary companies now finally have the right to be represented collectively by a trade union. Seventy teachers…