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27 May 2008
Dealing with 100-250 emails a week, spending over half your time on administration, coping with rising seminar and lecture sizes, but spending less time with students.…
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22 May 2008
UCU today said that everyone involved in higher education had more to do to ensure everyone in society could maximise their potential. Commenting on a report from…
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21 May 2008
College lecturers in London will take strike action on Monday 9 June unless their employers improve a pay offer of 2.5% for 2008-09. And lecturers throughout England…
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17 May 2008
The fastest growing privatisation in Europe is threatening the UK's proud international reputation for educational excellence, warns the world's largest post-16…
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15 May 2008
A political refugee from Strathclyde who established law clinics to provide legal advice for people with nowhere else to turn and a tutor from Stoke on Trent who…
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14 May 2008
UCU commented today on the prime minister's legislative programme, including a new Education and Skills Bill UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said: 'UCU welcomes…
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14 May 2008
A private company that took charge of education and training in eight Kent prisons has terminated its contract a year early in the face of a hefty financial loss.…
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14 May 2008
Lecturers at Northampton University today warned that they would fight any job cuts in the history department and called the financial reasoning behind the proposed…
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8 May 2008
Over a hundred Huddersfield students are set to lose out after a college announced it will axe 16 A-level courses because it cannot meet new government targets…
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7 May 2008
Pay, academic freedom, the purpose of education, fighting against privatisation and combating climate change are just some of the topics to be debated by UCU further…
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