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29 November 2006
UCU said today that for widening participation to really succeed potential students must have access to the courses they want to study and not be stopped, or put…
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29 November 2006
UCU today welcomed the decision by Oxford University academics to reject proposals to hand control of the university's affairs to an outside body. UCU joint general…
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28 November 2006
UCU today said that staff and universities must be properly resourced if the UK is to be able to maintain its position as a global leader. Responding to the 'Higher…
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27 November 2006
UCU believes staff governors in further education colleges can play a positive role in helping to maintain high quality courses. This message will be heard today…
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23 November 2006
Today's Times Higher Education Supplement has reported that the education secretary, Alan Johnson, has written to the Higher Education Funding Council for England…
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23 November 2006
UCU has expressed serious misgivings about territorial ambitions of Newcastle College (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) after Skelmersdale College's announcement yesterday…
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22 November 2006
UCU today told education secretary Alan Johnson that although his compliments about college lecturers were appreciated, the government needs to stop ignoring the…
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21 November 2006
Disturbing levels of sleeplessness, anxiety and exhaustion amongst lecturers in colleges and universities will be revealed at a conference on tackling stress at…
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20 November 2006
This afternoon's decision to axe the physics department at Reading University is part of potentially irreversible decline of UK science that could soon see parts…
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20 November 2006
A new push in colleges in England that haven't yet brought lecturers' pay closer to that of school teachers was announced today by UCU. Thanks to determined action…
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