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11 December 2007
Keele University's council has approved a plan to close most of the School of Economic and Management Studies' current programmes in management, economics and industrial…
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17 October 2007
Lecturers in Bournemouth have expressed outrage and distanced themselves from comments made by the university vice-chancellor, Paul Curran, regarding the state…
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5 October 2007
Sandwell College, in the Midlands, is sacrificing the breadth of its curriculum, cutting courses vital to the local community, while increasing its bureaucracy…
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3 October 2007
UCU members at Craven College have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action after experiencing a pay cut throughout the last year because the college refused…
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24 September 2007
On 21 September the board of Bournemouth University approved the compulsory redundancy of 50 academic posts. These are on top of some 70 posts lost through voluntary…
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13 September 2007
UCU today warned that recent departmental closures in strategic subjects like the sciences must not be allowed to continue if the UK wants to ensure future students…
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20 August 2007
UCU Scotland today celebrated the Scottish Executive's announcement of additional funding to allow Glasgow University to remain at the Crichton Campus. In February…
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20 July 2007
Lecturers at Southampton University will be decked in black today at graduation ceremonies at Southampton University. Graduation day is usually a time for celebration,…
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29 June 2007
A staffing crisis is set to follow the mass departure of teaching staff from Harlow College. Despite efforts by UCU the college management has failed to provide…
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28 June 2007
UCU members at City of Sunderland College are set to ballot on whether to take strike action in defence of teaching jobs threatened with redundancy. Lecturers fear…
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