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3 March 2020
Casual contracts are affecting the physical and mental health of staff, and having a negative impact on students' learning, according to a secret report from the…
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2 March 2020
UCU has written to new universities minister Michelle Donelan asking her to encourage universities to do more to end the wave of strikes at 74 UK universities.
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29 February 2020
UCU said today that many factors influenced graduate earnings and that better careers advice and an overhaul of university admissions could help level the playing…
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28 February 2020
Universities trying to intimidate students not to support striking staff Students who have backed striking staff have been threatened with punitive action by universities,…
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27 February 2020
Following intervention from the UCU branch at Edinburgh university the university has confirmed that PhD students who deliver teaching as part of their scholarship…
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27 February 2020
UCU says university tuition fees should be scrapped to widen participation and encourage collaboration in higher education The union was responding to a report…
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27 February 2020
UCU says a major review of admissions needs to deliver a fairer system for students where they apply to university after they receive their results UCU said it…
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21 February 2020
Solid support for strikes as students call on university heads to do more to solve disputes Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses…
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20 February 2020
Support for the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses is solid as UCU members at 74 universities begin 14 days of strikes. Striking staff were given…
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19 February 2020
The blame for the disruption to students' education starting tomorrow (Thursday) lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, UCU said today. UCU members at 74…
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