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5 October 2007
UCU has welcomed government plans to invest in science and technology and the teaching of STEM subjects, outlined in the government's response to a review of science…
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5 October 2007
Sandwell College, in the Midlands, is sacrificing the breadth of its curriculum, cutting courses vital to the local community, while increasing its bureaucracy…
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3 October 2007
UCU members at Craven College have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action after experiencing a pay cut throughout the last year because the college refused…
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1 October 2007
Four more teacher trade unionists have been murdered in recent weeks in the Colombian department of Antioquia, taking to over 1,000 lives the union death toll in…
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28 September 2007
UCU announced today that, after seeking legal advice, an academic boycott of Israel would be unlawful and cannot be implemented. Members of the union's strategy…
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28 September 2007
Two of UCU's celebrated life changers told Bill Rammell, minister of state for lifelong learning, further and higher education, this week exactly what was needed…
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25 September 2007
UCU today said that staff needed to be recognised for the extra 'unscheduled' work outside of teaching hours they put in with their students. A Higher Education…
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24 September 2007
On 21 September the board of Bournemouth University approved the compulsory redundancy of 50 academic posts. These are on top of some 70 posts lost through voluntary…
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18 September 2007
Only Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece and Italy have higher student:staff ratios in their higher education institutions than Britain, according to the annual…
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18 September 2007
'Gagged' students and their lecturers will take part in events across the country today to highlight the threat to free courses in English for Speakers of Other…
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