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  • 29 June 2017

    Speaking at the HE Festival today, UCU general secretary Sally Hunt argued that for-profit education is bad for students, higher education and the taxpayer. In…

  • 23 June 2017

    UCU criticises teaching excellence rankings for failing to rank teaching excellence The much-maligned Teaching Excellence Framework rankings were finally revealed…

  • 9 June 2017

    Over a quarter (28%) of the teaching workforce in further education are employed on insecure precarious contracts, with the majority of staff (69%) on hourly-paid…

  • 2 June 2017

    Why universities need real strength and stability In its editorial on Tuesday, the Guardian highlighted how universities are under threat from Brexit, creeping…

  • 31 March 2017

    Staff dissatisfied with how universities are run and don't feel respected More than three-quarters of university staff are dissatisfied with the way their institution…

  • 17 March 2017

    Lords call for international students to be removed migration figures The Lords were back attacking the government's beleaguered Higher Education and Research Bill…

  • 10 March 2017

    UCU attacks vice-chancellors after Lords amend higher education bill UCU this week thanked peers for making a series of amendments to the government's Higher Education…

  • 9 March 2017

    UCU today thanked peers for making a series of amendments to the government's Higher Education and Research Bill and launched an attack on university vice-chancellors…

  • 10 February 2017

    Education community needs to "take back control" in the world of post-truth politics, says Sally Hunt Ahead of tomorrow's Cradle To Grave conference in London,…

  • 8 February 2017

    UCU said today that the lack of data around alternative providers of higher education exposed how government plans to make it much easier for new "competitor" universities…