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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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2 April 2020
The government must provide immediate support to colleges and universities to ensure they can help lead the recovery when the coronavirus crisis is over In a letter…
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24 March 2020
Redundancy plans are at odds with university's pledge to support staff and students The University of Portsmouth is under fire for pushing ahead with plans to sack…
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20 March 2020
Government plans to create grades for students who exams are cancelled this summer must take into account the barriers that students from disadvantaged backgrounds…
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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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