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27 July 2009
Half of universities planning to axe staff are breaking the law by failing to carry out legally required equality impact assessments. UCU has written to the Equality…
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24 July 2009
UCU today slammed the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university teaching by £65 million. The union said…
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24 July 2009
UCU has condemned London Metropolitan University (LMU) for using the same discredited student completion records that plunged the institution into crisis as a way…
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23 July 2009
UCU today attacked the decision by the government and the Office For Fair Access (OFFA) to renege on a promise that the poorest students would have their full university…
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21 July 2009
UCU has backed calls for greater local access to higher education but warned that new recommendations for students to study some degrees for free, in return for…
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20 July 2009
UCU has welcomed the announcement by the business secretary Peter Mandelson that there would be an extra 10,000 student places at universities. However, the union…
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20 July 2009
Teaching staff at the Oakhill Secure Training centre near Milton Keynes (who are employed by Manchester College) are walking out on 21 July over allegations of…
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17 July 2009
UCU today welcomed a hard-hitting report from the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee into the fiasco of the college buildings programme in further…
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16 July 2009
UCU today said that it welcomed the promise from the prime minister that there would be extra student places at universities this year. However, the union warned…
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16 July 2009
UCU today said that a sharp rise in graduate unemployment and increasing numbers of students not completing their first year at university did little to help a…
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