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19 November 2013
Healthcare training that produces highly skilled graduates to work in hospitals and health services across West Yorkshire and beyond, should not be 'decimated',…
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19 November 2013
Taxpayers have been hit with an £80m bill after private colleges took advantage of state-funded student loans and went on a recruitment drive. This figure was revealed…
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15 November 2013
Talks are set for next week in the pay row between universities and their staff, despite some universities imposing the 1% pay offer the unions have rejected. Representatives…
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14 November 2013
UCU announced today that it will fight plans to axe 75 jobs at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). At a packed meeting last night, UCU members vowed to…
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14 November 2013
Members of UCU at the London School of Economics (LSE) have called on the institution to suspend all joint courses with Peking University in a row over the sacking…
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13 November 2013
Union calls on Southampton University chief to donate strikers' wages to poorest students and to use influence to help resolve nationwide pay row Members of UCU…
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12 November 2013
UCU today backed Ed Miliband's proposal that companies should only be able to secure large government contracts if they agree to create an apprenticeship programme.…
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12 November 2013
University staff across the UK will walk out for a second day of strike action on Tuesday 3 December, announced trade unions representing university staff today.…
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11 November 2013
Nearly a third of Scottish universities pay some of their staff less than the living wage, according to a new report. The findings, from the National Union of Students…
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7 November 2013
UCU today warned against making higher education overly reliant on private sources of funding. A new report on the future of universities' funding concludes that…
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