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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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15 April 2014
Cardiff Metropolitan University is under fire for imposing a bizarre new contract on its professors which includes a clause stating that they may be prevented from…
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15 April 2014
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has announced that the recipients of this year's health and safety award are Dundee University UCU reps Marion Sporing…
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14 April 2014
An e-petition sent to the vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, calling for action to resolve the national higher education pay dispute, has secured…
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11 April 2014
Lectures could be cancelled across the UK after universities said they would not pay staff involved in a marking boycott for any of their other work. The unprecedented…
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10 April 2014
Just two UK universities provided details of their vice-chancellor's pay rise for a report looking into the murky world of senior academic pay released today. Four-fifths…
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3 April 2014
UCU has today welcomed the publication of the national strategy for access and student success in higher education, produced by the Higher Education Funding Council…
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3 April 2014
University heads saw their salaries and benefits rise by an average of 5.5% between 2012-13 and 2011-12, according to an in-depth study of academic pay released…
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3 April 2014
Universities' substantial contribution to the economy is revealed in a report released today that shows they generated £73bn of output and accounted for 2.7% of…
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