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16 March 2007
The UK's newest university, Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, has become embroiled in an age discrimination row after refusing to extend the contract of a 65-year-old…
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15 March 2007
UCU has written to chancellor Gordon Brown urging him to make a special allocation of funds to the DfES to protect courses in ESOL (English for speakers of other…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed UCU. This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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12 March 2007
UCU today responded to a review of foreign language teaching, which recommends lessons should be compulsory for the first time in England's primary schools. UCU…
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12 March 2007
A £25 million reduction in funding for adult education in London is set to exacerbate the impact of government plans to restrict access to free English language…
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9 March 2007
Sally Hunt has been elected as the first general secretary of the University and College Union. The union was formed on 1 June 2006 following a merger between the…
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8 March 2007
An industrial tribunal has ruled that further education colleges in Northern Ireland failed to pay over 70 lecturers their proper pay since 2001. The decision,…
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8 March 2007
A University of Ulster lecturer whose fixed term contract was not renewed was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against, a Northern Ireland industrial tribunal…
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7 March 2007
The union representing teachers of adult English language classes today urged chancellor Gordon Brown to demonstrate 'joined up' government and commit to greater…
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5 March 2007
UCU members are being encouraged to sign a European TUC online petition in support of quality public services in the European Union. The aim is collect 1 million…
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