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19 September 2016
Staff working at one of Coventry University's subsidiary companies now finally have the right to be represented collectively by a trade union. Seventy teachers…
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19 September 2016
UCU today said it wanted guarantees that students at a new college, formed by the merger of South Tyneside and Tyne Metropolitan colleges, could still expect a…
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16 September 2016
A look back at some of the week's news Smartest students could be priced out by rising university costs, warns international report The Organisation for Economic…
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16 September 2016
It was a busy time for UCU delegates at the 148th annual TUC congress in Brighton this week. On Sunday evening UCU vice-president Joanna de Groot warned that pensions…
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15 September 2016
Staff at the University of Leicester will lobby the university's highest decision-making body - its Council - when it meets tomorrow afternoon to make a crunch…
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15 September 2016
An influential report's warning that increasing the cost of going to university could price out the smartest students should ring alarm bells as the government…
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8 September 2016
UCU members at Hull College have today announced an official dispute following the college's plans to make over 100 redundancies . The news comes on top of recent…
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8 September 2016
UCU said today that there needed to be better information collected on the number of people on zero-hours contracts as new figures suggested the number employed…
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5 September 2016
UCU said today the government plans to expand the numbers of apprenticeships are at risk of failing unless high-quality schemes are established quickly. The union,…
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25 August 2016
UCU today said its branches would be meeting next month to discuss the latest offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association. UCU has been in dispute…
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