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13 March 2020
Five-day walkouts at UK universities It was a full week of disruption, pickets and demonstrations at dozens of UK universities this week as UCU strike action entered…
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8 March 2020
Launch of first ever exhibition to honour "invisible" academics Award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, poet and playwright Joan Anim-Addo and the first woman…
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6 March 2020
UCU sets out path for real change for higher education and an end to the strikes UCU said yesterday that it believed agreements that could put the union and the…
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3 March 2020
Casual contracts are affecting the physical and mental health of staff, and having a negative impact on students' learning, according to a secret report from the…
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2 March 2020
UCU has written to new universities minister Michelle Donelan asking her to encourage universities to do more to end the wave of strikes at 74 UK universities.
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29 February 2020
UCU said today that many factors influenced graduate earnings and that better careers advice and an overhaul of university admissions could help level the playing…
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28 February 2020
Universities trying to intimidate students not to support striking staff Students who have backed striking staff have been threatened with punitive action by universities,…
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27 February 2020
Following intervention from the UCU branch at Edinburgh university the university has confirmed that PhD students who deliver teaching as part of their scholarship…
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27 February 2020
UCU says university tuition fees should be scrapped to widen participation and encourage collaboration in higher education The union was responding to a report…
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27 February 2020
UCU says a major review of admissions needs to deliver a fairer system for students where they apply to university after they receive their results UCU said it…
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