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24 March 2020
The postponement of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is an opportunity to reform how research is reviewed and funding is allocated, said UCU.
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24 March 2020
Around two-thirds of prison education staff (63%) say hand washing facilities in their prisons are inadequate, despite government guidance which says regular hand…
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24 March 2020
Redundancy plans are at odds with university's pledge to support staff and students The University of Portsmouth is under fire for pushing ahead with plans to sack…
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20 March 2020
Government plans to create grades for students who exams are cancelled this summer must take into account the barriers that students from disadvantaged backgrounds…
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16 March 2020
UCU's higher education committee (HEC) has taken the decision to postpone the reballots of higher education branches which were due to begin on Tuesday 17 March,…
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13 March 2020
Five-day walkouts at UK universities It was a full week of disruption, pickets and demonstrations at dozens of UK universities this week as UCU strike action entered…
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8 March 2020
Launch of first ever exhibition to honour "invisible" academics Award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, poet and playwright Joan Anim-Addo and the first woman…
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6 March 2020
UCU sets out path for real change for higher education and an end to the strikes UCU said yesterday that it believed agreements that could put the union and the…
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3 March 2020
Casual contracts are affecting the physical and mental health of staff, and having a negative impact on students' learning, according to a secret report from the…
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2 March 2020
UCU has written to new universities minister Michelle Donelan asking her to encourage universities to do more to end the wave of strikes at 74 UK universities.
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