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8 May 2014
Seventy-nine members of staff at West Cheshire College will discover shortly if their job is safe or not as the college today sends letters to the affected workers…
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6 May 2014
• Millions of students taught by staff with few rights or facilities • 30% of college teachers and 17% of university teachers on zero-hours contracts • 67% of university…
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2 May 2014
A proposed marking boycott of university students' work in the UK is off after members of UCU voted overwhelmingly to accept a 2% pay offer from the employers.…
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30 April 2014
Students and staff will take their protests against plans to close language degrees at the University of Salford to an influential meeting tomorrow. Members of…
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30 April 2014
New figures released today show that employers in Britain are using about 1.4m 'zero-hours' contracts The figures , from the Office for National Statistics, show…
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29 April 2014
The number of part-time students in English universities now stands at 139,000 - nearly half the 2010 total of 259,000 students, says a new report from the Higher…
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28 April 2014
Members of UCU in higher education are currently being balloted on whether or not to accept a 2% pay rise from the employers' body the Universities and Colleges…
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28 April 2014
Forcing key issues in further and higher education onto political parties' agendas will be behind debates at UCU's annual conference next month. Delegates from…
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23 April 2014
The University of Salford has announced that it plans to axe all modern foreign languages (MFL) courses after 2017, despite a review which recommended that they…
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16 April 2014
The Universities and Colleges' Employers Association (UCEA) has offered a 2% pay increase for UK higher education staff at the latest round of negotiations. This…
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