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12 May 2009
The University of Surrey has announced that it is planning to make 65 staff redundant. In an ominous message to staff, vice-chancellor, Professor Christopher Snowdon,…
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12 May 2009
UCU has called for a public enquiry into the failings of London Metropolitan University (LMU) as students from the university staged an occupation of the institution's…
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9 May 2009
In an historic move, UCU has join forces with half a million academics from around the world to create a series of new international agreements that will help safeguard…
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8 May 2009
Members of UCU at Strathclyde University will today lobby the university's top decision making body in protest over job losses and plans for reshaping of the university.…
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7 May 2009
UCU said today that reported education funding cuts would make a mockery of the Prime Minister's commitment earlier this week that 'education would not become a…
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7 May 2009
UCU said today that the University of Surrey's announcement that it would be sacking staff made a mockery of its commitment to 'helping vulnerable individuals and…
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7 May 2009
Union says national agreement to prevent jobs crisis needed to protect quality of higher education in the UK. UCU today said that concerns about the amount of staff…
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6 May 2009
London Metropolitan University will be brought to a standstill on 7 May as members of UCU take a day's strike action as part of their ongoing fight to save at least…
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5 May 2009
UCU today told university employers that they were isolated in their refusal to deliver a national agreement to protect jobs in the higher education sector. UCU…
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1 May 2009
UCU today welcomed the decision by Doncaster College, to abandon plans for mass redundancies. Over a 150 jobs look to have been saved, just days after the principal,…
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