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18 September 2008
UCU today blamed financial mismanagement at the University of Plymouth for the announcement of over 100 academic staff redundancies. The union said it was disingenuous…
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18 September 2008
UCU today reiterated calls for a national bursary scheme for students. The union said the inequity highlighted in a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute…
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11 September 2008
UCU today welcomed the positive results of the fourth National Student Survey (NSS). The survey of nearly 220,000 students revealed that over four fifths of students…
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10 September 2008
UCU said today that people needed to have faith in the prison service and that can only be achieved with proper support for the people who educate offenders. Alan…
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9 September 2008
UCU said today that the TUC's rejection of university top-up fees was a stark warning to universities and politicians looking to exacerbate student debt. The union…
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8 September 2008
UCU said today that the government had to listen to public sector workers. UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said ministers had to stop seeing public sector workers…
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4 September 2008
Members of UCU at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) are set to vote on strike action in on ongoing row over union recognition. The union warned today that if members…
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4 September 2008
UCU warned today that an increase in for-profit universities would see successful institutions of the future would be measured by how much they could overcharge…
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4 September 2008
UCU said today that a key ruling on university rules sent a clear message to all institutions that they cannot ride roughshod over regulation and warned any that…
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3 September 2008
UCU today welcomed a report from the National Union of Students (NUS) that highlights the unfairness and lack of sustainability in the current university funding…
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