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6 September 2011
UCU today warned that new guidelines for university research will penalise female academics who take maternity leave. Under the draft proposals, which are part…
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6 September 2011
Up to 25,000 teachers and lecturers will gather in Westminster on Wednesday 26 October in a mass lobby to protest against changes to the Teachers' Pension Scheme.…
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5 September 2011
UCU Scotland has criticised the announcement that Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities will charge £9,000 fees per year for students from the rest of the UK.…
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5 September 2011
UCU today welcomed comments from the deputy prime-minister, Nick Clegg, that schools and academies should never be run for profit, and called on him to give the…
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2 September 2011
On Monday 22 August, Colombian trade union activist, Alfonso Diaz Villa, was assassinated near his home in the Coroda region. Diaz, who was a regional leader of…
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1 September 2011
Graduates from the class of 2007 are more likely to be unemployed than those who left university earlier in the decade, according to new statistics released today.…
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26 August 2011
UCU Scotland has criticised the announcement that Aberdeen University will charge £9,000 fees per year for students from the rest of the UK. In a statement* to…
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24 August 2011
Poorest students set to receive just half of last year's financial support • Only a quarter of colleges have posted financial support packages on their websites…
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22 August 2011
300 jobs at risk, despite university's high fees for 2012 Members of UCU at Middlesex University will be balloted for strike action in a row over jobs. The union…
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18 August 2011
Social mobility is likely to be an unintended victim of the government's plans to increase university fees and the new methods of allocating resources and controlling…
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