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2 December 2013
Universities across Scotland will be hit with strike action tomorrow as staff walk out in a row over pay. Staff will be on picket lines from 7.30am at Glasgow,…
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29 November 2013
The University of the West of Scotland has today announced that it will not be opening on Tuesday 3 December, due to the planned industrial action by four campus…
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30 October 2013
Staff at universities across Scotland will be on strike tomorrow as members of UCU, UNISON and Unite take their first ever coordinated strike action in a row over…
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17 October 2013
The role of Scotland's universities must be addressed in the run up to the independence referendum, said the UCU today. The union today released its manifesto for…
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14 October 2013
UCU today warned that the extensive use of zero-hours contracts in Scottish universities was bad for lecturers and bad for students. The union has submitted evidence…
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11 September 2013
UCU Scotland welcomes the marginal increase in cash funds. In the budget statement today John Swinney announced a cash increase of £19m, 2%, for universities in…
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6 September 2013
The University of Edinburgh announced that it has signed an agreement with the UCU to wipe out the use of zero-hour contracts at the university. The news comes…
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5 September 2013
Scottish universities are far more likely to have staff working on zero-hour contracts than other workplaces, according to new research by UCU. Two-thirds (66%)…
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18 July 2013
A new code of governance for Scottish universities will fail to ensure proper scrutiny of Scottish universities and should be rejected by the government, said the…
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27 June 2013
UCU welcomed the passage of the Post-16 Bill, which includes key legislation on the governance of Scottish universities and plans to increase university applications…
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