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24 March 2009
Four colleges across the country will be brought to a standstill today and tomorrow as staff walk out in a row over their failure to honour a pay deal agreed over…
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23 March 2009
UCU today welcomed the government's new white paper on informal adult education, and its pledge to spend an additional £20 million on adult learning partnerships.…
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20 March 2009
UCU today slammed the decision by the University of Reading to close its School of Health and Social Care. The union is angry that the university has ignored the…
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20 March 2009
Scottish universities overtly pro-business agendas, staff being forced to spy on their students and fighting redundancies are among the issues up for debate at…
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19 March 2009
UCU and UNISON have called for urgent action from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to save college building projects. The unions have written to the LSC calling…
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19 March 2009
UCU today accused university vice-chancellors of hypocrisy over staff pay and student fees as it was revealed that, following huge pay rises, they now earn, on…
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17 March 2009
UCU said today that vice-chancellors' desire to increase university tuition fees to as much as £20,000 a year was directly at odds with the view of the general…
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17 March 2009
UCU said today that any plans to increase university tuition fees would further damage plans to open up university to the brightest students, rather than just those…
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13 March 2009
UCU said today that it was looking to take forward a new agenda for negotiations around pay and conditions for university staff. The union had been locked in talks…
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13 March 2009
UCU Scotland will say today that long-term planning and proper investment in education are required if Scotland is to pull itself out of recession. Speaking at…
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