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17 March 2021
All six further education colleges in Northern Ireland will be hit with one day of strike action on Wednesday 24 March unless Stormont urgently addresses staff…
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25 February 2021
UCU is threatening to take industrial action over staff pay across all six Northern Ireland further education colleges.
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13 February 2021
In her first speech to UCU's annual congress as general secretary, Jo Grady set out the challenges workers in prison, adult, further and higher education are facing…
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3 December 2020
Trade unions representing staff in English further education colleges have today slammed the decision by the Association of Colleges (AoC) to offer a 1% pay increase…
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24 November 2020
UCU called for colleges to recommend a significant increase in staff pay for 2020/21.
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2 October 2020
Manchester Metropolitan locked down 1,700 students on Friday night Last Friday night, Manchester Metropolitan University told around 1,700 students to self-isolate…
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1 October 2020
Colleges must deliver on their promise to increase staff pay now the government has provided further education an extra £400 million funding, said trade unions…
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29 September 2020
Responding to a speech by the prime minister on skills, UCU said further education desperately needed funding because of a decade of cuts under Conservative governments…
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28 August 2020
Scapegoats, U-turns, dithering and confusion reign in Westminster It's been another week of scapegoating, dithering and U-turns from the Westminster government.…
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21 August 2020
A-level results chaos This week has been a grade-A government fiasco . It began with A-level students facing complete chaos . Last week they had received grades…
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