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3 April 2015
Commenting on the cancellation of a conference at the University of Southampton entitled International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and…
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1 April 2015
UCU today welcomed a commitment from Labour party leader Ed Miliband that workers on zero-hours contracts would have the right to regular employment after 12 weeks.…
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31 March 2015
Commenting on news that the University of Aberdeen is planning to cut 150 jobs, UCU Scotland said it was a worrying time for staff and that axing jobs would have…
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26 March 2015
Two members of staff have been sacked by the University of Bolton for allegedly leaking information to the press about the vice-chancellor, George Holmes. In addition,…
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25 March 2015
Adult education and training in England will not exist by 2020 if the government continues with its planned cuts to the adult skills budget warns new research findings…
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25 March 2015
The business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee has warned that the benefits of a proposed transatlantic trade deal are "impossible to quantify". In…
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23 March 2015
Scottish universities have been urged to outlaw controversial zero-hours contracts to employ staff. UCU has written to institutions north of the border calling…
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20 March 2015
Members of UCU at the University of Dundee are being balloted for strike action in a row over job losses. The university plans to get rid of 70 posts, on top of…
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19 March 2015
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith is writing to the skills minister, Nick Boles, to urge him to rethink government plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as…
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18 March 2015
Luton North MP Kelvin Hopkins has criticised plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as 24%, calling the cuts "completely unacceptable". The former college…
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