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25 June 2008
The nomination of Hereford Royal National College for the Blind as one of the sites for the 2012 Paralympics has been received somewhat sceptically by UCU. While…
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17 June 2008
The government's response to a highly critical parliamentary committee report on cuts in funding for second-time higher education students was arrogant and contradictory,…
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12 June 2008
UCU today announced that it has reached an interim agreement with Keele University over the current dispute involving the School of Economic and Management Studies…
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12 June 2008
UCU said today that Sandwell College will face probable strike action if it does not reverse plans to axe GCSE and A-level courses. Up to 40 jobs are at risk under…
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9 June 2008
UCU said today that it will be fighting compulsory redundancy in the computing department at Liverpool Hope University. UCU members at the institution are unconvinced…
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6 June 2008
Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from UCU. The union warned today that unless…
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29 May 2008
Lecturers roundly condemned the government's adult education policy this week amidst further news of course closures. UCU's annual national Congress in Manchester…
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14 May 2008
Lecturers at Northampton University today warned that they would fight any job cuts in the history department and called the financial reasoning behind the proposed…
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8 May 2008
Over a hundred Huddersfield students are set to lose out after a college announced it will axe 16 A-level courses because it cannot meet new government targets…
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29 April 2008
UCU's branch at Lancaster University has launched a petition against job threats in continuing education resulting from the government's short-sighted cuts in 'ELQ'…
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