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8 February 2007
UCU joint general secretary, Sally Hunt, will today tell delegates at a major European education seminar that unless trade unions are centrally involved in plans…
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7 February 2007
UCU has responded to a report published today by Universities UK which sets out the economic benefits to individuals of a higher education qualification. UCU joint…
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6 February 2007
UCU has today written to the University and Colleges Employers' Association (UCEA) to ask the employers to act to stop creeping privatisation in UK universities.…
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2 February 2007
Members of the Newcastle UCU today led a protest against the privatisation of a university language school. Academics were selling toilet paper degrees to students…
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2 February 2007
UCU today said that it will fight plans to privatise a language centre at Oxford Brookes University all the way. The university is currently considering plans to…
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1 February 2007
UCU has today launched a help kit for academic and related staff on fixed-term or hourly-paid contracts. The kit is part of the union's campaign to secure better…
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31 January 2007
UCU has criticised the vice chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University for his recommendation that civil partnerships should not take place on university…
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30 January 2007
Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges were hit hard by strike action on 29 January as college lecturers took their 6th day of strike action since last…
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30 January 2007
UCU has today written to the UK's university umbrella group opposing increasing levels of private sector involvement in key university functions. The union will…
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29 January 2007
Strathclyde University have announced that they intend to shed 250 jobs over the next three years through voluntary redundancies and natural wastage in a letter…
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