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1 June 2007
UCU has called on Harlow College to engage in talks to settle the dispute at the college, instead of hiring public relations consultants and engaging in a media…
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31 May 2007
College lecturers, at their conference today, urged the government to abandon plans to force youngsters to stay on in education until the age of eighteen. Further…
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31 May 2007
Paul Mackney, joint general secretary of UCU, today said many of the government's education policies are not based on evidence but on ill considered 'fag packet'…
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30 May 2007
Delegates at the inaugural UCU congress voted this afternoon in favour of a motion calling for the circulation of 'the full text of the Palestinian boycott call…
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30 May 2007
University and college lecturers this morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for 'extremism'. The…
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30 May 2007
Government education policy is a catalogue of misaligned objectives which are damaging the education system, Britain's standing abroad, social cohesion and the…
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28 May 2007
UCU Scotland has called for increased funding to meet the economic needs of Scotland in their submission to the spending review for the new executive. In a letter…
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25 May 2007
The Save ESOL campaign observed Adult Learning Week by delivering a petition signed by over 15,000 students, tutors and campaign supporters. It calls on government…
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23 May 2007
UCU said today that the Scottish Executive must intervene to stop the proposed closure of Glasgow University's Crichton Campus. Glasgow University announced in…
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23 May 2007
Lecturers at Harlow College, members of UCU, will be on picket lines outside the college's main entrances tomorrow, Thursday 24 May, at the start of two day strike…
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