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11 March 2013
A question time event will discuss the implications of independence or further devolution for universities at UCU Scotland's annual congress on Friday 22 March…
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7 March 2013
A survey of more than 14,000 higher education staff in the UK, carried out by UCU, has found academics and academic-related staff are increasingly stressed by a…
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5 March 2013
UCU will tomorrow hold a national day of action in protest at rampant casualisation in colleges and universities. The union has highlighted that the growing number…
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5 March 2013
UCU has today highlighted a new report's finding that a cut to universities' widening participation budgets would do lasting damage to disadvantaged young people.…
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4 March 2013
The number of UK universities in the world's top 100 based has fallen for a second successive year, according to new reputation-based rankings released today by…
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4 March 2013
Staff at Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) have delivered a damning vote of no confidence in the institution's deputy vice-chancellor Professor Sally Glen. Members…
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4 March 2013
Questions about academic freedom at the University of Sussex continue to be asked as a bitter row about outsourcing jobs and services shows little sign of abating.…
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1 March 2013
Teaching and educational professionals are clocking up an extra hour and a half a week of unpaid overtime compared to last year, according to new figures released…
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28 February 2013
A third (30%) of postgraduate students who teach in universities are paid less than the national minimum wage of £6.19 an hour, reveals a report released today.…
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28 February 2013
Figures for university entry this autumn do not demonstrate that applications are back on track, warned UCU today. Although there has been a rise compared to 2012,…
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