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7 January 2013
Members of UCU at Halesowen College will meet tomorrow to decide on the next steps in their dispute with the college. Over 100 UCU members from across the region…
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3 January 2013
The number of people applying to go to university in 2013 has slumped by 5.6% overall, with the biggest drop in England (6.5%), compared to the same time a year…
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1 January 2013
UCU news from 2013
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20 December 2012
Newcastle College has been branded the 'Scrooge' of further education by UCU after it emerged that, just 24 hours before most staff break up for Christmas, it will…
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19 December 2012
Overall funding up, but teaching and research support cut UCU Scotland welcomed a real terms increase in funding for universities, but raised concerns that the…
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18 December 2012
UCU said today (Tuesday) that government plans to strip away the rights of people facing redundancy were another damaging blow for post-16 education, which has…
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13 December 2012
Commenting on the drop in the number of students at university this year, UCU said the record fall represented a failure of the government's higher education policies.…
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12 December 2012
Speaking ahead of a speech today by home secretary, Theresa May, on immigration, UCU said hardline and ill-conceived policies on immigration remained the biggest…
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12 December 2012
UCU and the National Union of Students (NUS) have today written to the minister for universities and science, David Willetts, asking him to block any moves to grant…
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6 December 2012
UCU has today written to the Public Accounts Committee asking for an inquiry into the trebling of taxpayers' money going to private providers of higher education…
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