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26 April 2013
UCU said today that further education colleges needed to be at the heart of plans for transferring skills budgets to Local Enterprise Partnerships. Responding to…
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25 April 2013
Unions* representing staff in English further education colleges said a 0.5% pay offer made at the first round of pay negotiations yesterday was not acceptable.…
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25 April 2013
UCU takes its appeal over redundancy consultations to the Scottish Court of Session in Edinburgh. The union is arguing that the University of Stirling was wrong…
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24 April 2013
University employers have offered their staff a pay increase of just 0.5%. The trades unions representing university staff* rejected the 'disappointing' offer and…
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23 April 2013
Defending education and protecting funding for the knowledge economy are key themes of this year's UCU annual congress, where delegates will be encouraged to promote…
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22 April 2013
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) announced this morning that it will not be proceeding with a proposal to convert the university into a Company Limited…
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19 April 2013
UCU has raised concerns about the overtly political nature of comments attributed to the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, in an Ofsted press release…
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17 April 2013
Responding to unemployment figures released today, UCU said the government needed to improve access to education and jobs, especially for young people. The number…
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16 April 2013
A new draft code of governance for Scottish universities, published today (Tuesday), will fail to ensure proper scrutiny of institutions' major decisions and should…
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10 April 2013
The gap between boys and girls going to university from the poorest backgrounds widened in the first year of the new tuition fees regime, according to new analysis…
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