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5 October 2017
To mark World Teachers' Day, UCU has written to the universities minister Jo Johnson today (Thursday) asking him to improve protections for academic freedom in…
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5 October 2017
Staff at the University of Leeds will take three consecutive days of strike action next week in a dispute over changes to the university's dismissal policies. The…
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4 October 2017
Members of UCU at the University of Manchester are planning to strike later this month after they overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a row over 140 job…
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2 October 2017
UCU has today responded to the government announcement that tuition fees would be frozen at £9,250 and the student loan repayment threshold raised from £21,000…
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29 September 2017
UCU at Labour Party conference UCU general secretary Sally Hunt and president Joanna de Groot represented the union in Brighton this week at the Labour Party conference,…
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27 September 2017
A college lecturer has won £159,000 in damages in a personal injury stress case against Bradford College. The judge at Bradford County Court found that art and…
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26 September 2017
Commenting on Labour's draft ten-point charter for a National Education Service, UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said: 'This draft charter is a great starting…
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22 September 2017
New TUC president Sally Hunt looks to future of union movement Following her election as president of the TUC last week, UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has this…
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20 September 2017
UCU has said today that the employers' pay recommendation of 1%, or £250 for the lowest paid staff, fails to address the immediate hardship facing dedicated staff…
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15 September 2017
Ahead of Tuesday's pay talks between UCU and the Association of Colleges, UCU's head of further education Andrew Harden (pictured) says the decline in pay cannot…
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