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14 March 2013
Young people from the most advantaged backgrounds are three times more likely to go university than those from the least and they are six to nine times more likely…
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12 March 2013
The University of Salford has today been accused of riding roughshod over its own guidelines as it detailed plans to severely reduce redundancy terms for staff…
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11 March 2013
A question time event will discuss the implications of independence or further devolution for universities at UCU Scotland's annual congress on Friday 22 March…
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7 March 2013
A survey of more than 14,000 higher education staff in the UK, carried out by UCU, has found academics and academic-related staff are increasingly stressed by a…
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5 March 2013
UCU will tomorrow hold a national day of action in protest at rampant casualisation in colleges and universities. The union has highlighted that the growing number…
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5 March 2013
UCU has today highlighted a new report's finding that a cut to universities' widening participation budgets would do lasting damage to disadvantaged young people.…
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4 March 2013
The number of UK universities in the world's top 100 based has fallen for a second successive year, according to new reputation-based rankings released today by…
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4 March 2013
Staff at Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) have delivered a damning vote of no confidence in the institution's deputy vice-chancellor Professor Sally Glen. Members…
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4 March 2013
Questions about academic freedom at the University of Sussex continue to be asked as a bitter row about outsourcing jobs and services shows little sign of abating.…
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1 March 2013
Teaching and educational professionals are clocking up an extra hour and a half a week of unpaid overtime compared to last year, according to new figures released…
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