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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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19 September 2016
UCU today said it wanted guarantees that students at a new college, formed by the merger of South Tyneside and Tyne Metropolitan colleges, could still expect a…
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16 September 2016
A look back at some of the week's news Smartest students could be priced out by rising university costs, warns international report The Organisation for Economic…
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16 September 2016
It was a busy time for UCU delegates at the 148th annual TUC congress in Brighton this week. On Sunday evening UCU vice-president Joanna de Groot warned that pensions…
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