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10 December 2013
UCU strongly supports the right of students to protest against the privatisation of higher education, higher fees and the sale of the student loan book to fund…
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5 December 2013
UCU responded to today's announcement by George Osborne that the cap on student numbers in English universities would be lifted by questioning the way the extra…
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3 December 2013
UCU said today that strikes by staff in colleges and universities had seen some institutions closed, key learning facilities shut, hundreds of classes cancelled,…
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2 December 2013
Universities across Scotland will be hit with strike action tomorrow as staff walk out in a row over pay. Staff will be on picket lines from 7.30am at Glasgow,…
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29 November 2013
The University of the West of Scotland has today announced that it will not be opening on Tuesday 3 December, due to the planned industrial action by four campus…
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29 November 2013
Government ignored repeated warnings that there needed to be a cap on student recruitment • BIS insisted earlier this year that everything was under control and…
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29 November 2013
Universities and colleges will be hit with the most widespread disruption for years on Tuesday as staff walk out in a row over pay. Classes will be cancelled in…
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27 November 2013
UCU has today written to the employers' representatives, the Association of Colleges (AoC), to ask for pay talks to try and avert a strike in England's further…
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21 November 2013
Tuesday 3 December strike remains on, but unions hope for more talks to break impasse UCU said today it was disappointed that talks aimed at resolving a pay dispute…
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20 November 2013
Members of UCU working in further education colleges in England will join their colleagues in universities on strike on Tuesday 3 December, the union said today.…
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