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11 June 2025
Responding to today's spending review, UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: 'While additional science and technology research funding is welcome, it is long overdue…
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9 May 2025
University and college staff, as well as prison and adult educators, from across the UK will rally tomorrow (Saturday 10 May) against the education cuts that are…
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24 September 2024
Labour must give college teachers a pay rise to meet its 'youth guarantee' said UCU, in response to Keir Starmer's speech at Labour Conference.
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15 August 2024
UCU today congratulated students receiving their results, as well as the staff who have supported them. The union also urged the government to close the pay gap…
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24 July 2024
UCU added its voice to calls for increases to further education (FE) funding to help support the most disadvantaged students.
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11 June 2024
The next government must replace Ofsted inspections, make employers pay towards to the costs of building a skilled workforce, and help improve the pay and conditions…
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2 November 2022
After a hard-fought campaign to protect applied general qualifications (AGQ), BTECs are here to stay, with only a few Level 3 qualifications being defunded for…
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19 October 2022
UCU slammed plans to scrap thousands of level 2 qualifications and said government delays to the cuts show the changes are ill thought through and should now be…
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1 February 2022
New 'elite' sixth form colleges will divide 16 year olds into winners and losers said UCU.
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27 October 2021
In response to the UK government's autumn budget, UCU said the 'elephant in the room' remains the lack of trained college staff to meet the budget's ambitions.…
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