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25 September 2006
There was solid support for strikes held at colleges in Northern Ireland on Tuesday 19 September when hundreds of lecturers took to picket lines in a call for pay…
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22 September 2006
After a determined campaign by members and officials of UCU, an agreement of sector wide significance for older staff facing redundancy has been reached this week…
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21 September 2006
UCU has expressed its concerns over a story in today's Times Higher Education Supplement which has revealed that Liverpool University has seen a major increase…
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15 September 2006
Coaches are being booked from all over the UK to take people to the 'Stop The War' national demonstration in Manchester on 23 September - the eve of the Labour…
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15 September 2006
Education Minister Maria Eagle has announced the names of those appointed to serve as chairmen for Northern Ireland's new further education colleges arising from…
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15 September 2006
Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are expected to be shut down next Tuesday as a result of more strike action by lecturers. This will be the third…
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12 September 2006
UCU has welcomed today's call from the Education and Skills Committee for the government to clear up its confusing division between college courses that lead to…
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11 September 2006
Age discrimination is rife across our universities. Staff aged over 50 are the unhappiest in their jobs and almost half (43 per cent) would quit now if they could.…
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1 September 2006
UCU has today called for new legal requirements to bring about a sea-change in workplace training. This follows the publication of a new TUC report, 2020 vision…
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24 August 2006
The first open competition for the provision of 16-19 vocational learning has raised fears amongst college lecturers that it could be the start of a creeping privatisation…
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