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13 March 2012
Scrutiny of university governance review in Holyrood is opportunity for politicians to confirm their commitment to key improvements, says union Ahead of the Education…
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12 March 2012
The National Union of Students' week of action begins today as students across the UK call on government and universities to 'Come Clean' on their plans for higher…
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8 March 2012
New figures released today reveal that, as student fees are set to rise to as much as £9,000 a year, the proportion of universities' expenditure spent on staff…
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8 March 2012
UCU has questioned the wisdom of the government sticking rigidly to controversial student finance packages for the 2013 academic year, before the impact of the…
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2 March 2012
Sally Hunt has today been re-elected as general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), defeating her only opponent Mark Campbell by a margin of 6,835…
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1 March 2012
The number of managers in UK higher education has risen at more than twice the rate of academics in the past eight years, according to analysis by UCU The full-time…
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29 February 2012
UCU today called on the government to urgently invest in training and jobs for the UK's low-carbon industries. The union said green investment could provide the…
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27 February 2012
UCU today said that improving access to education and training was a much better way of helping young people find long-term work, than asking them to work for their…
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24 February 2012
Teaching and educational professionals are the group most likely to clock up unpaid overtime, according to new figures released today. UCU said the figures highlighted…
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23 February 2012
The number of full-time undergraduate courses on offer at UK universities has fallen by more than a quarter (27%) since 2006, according to a report published by…
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