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28 January 2010
Members of UCU at the University of Sussex have voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action if the threat of compulsory job losses is not withdrawn. At…
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28 January 2010
UCU said today that the government needed to act decisively to improve the chances of the poorest people in the country attending university. As new figures on…
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27 January 2010
UCU today said that changes to the grant system had heaped more misery on students. Figures published today by the Student Loans Company (SLC) showed a drop in…
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26 January 2010
Staff and students at the University of Gloucestershire will lobby the university's council at the institution's Oxstalls campus from 8.30am on 27 January in a…
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26 January 2010
UCU Scotland will hold a lobby outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday (27 January) as part of UCU's 'Defend jobs, defend education' campaign. The lobby will…
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25 January 2010
UCU today said the government's increasingly confused messages on higher education revealed the failings of its planned cuts for university funding. Writing in…
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22 January 2010
UCU will launch its education manifesto on Tuesday (26 January) at a lobby event in Parliament to set out its key issues in all areas of post-16 education. The…
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21 January 2010
UCU today accused Manchester College of throwing the prison education sector into havoc. The college has announced plans for 250 job losses from its offender learning…
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21 January 2010
UCU today questioned the wisdom of Lord Mandelson after he said that massive university cuts might be a blessing in disguise. Responding to a question at Lords…
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21 January 2010
UCU said today that the failings of the government's flagship Train to Gain programme had hit the people who most desperately needed its help the hardest. Responding…
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