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17 May 2007
51¸£Àû has awarded its first two 'Life Changers' grants of £3,000 to a reformed criminal and an eminent criminologist. Joe Baden and Professor Dick Hobbs were voted…
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13 April 2007
51¸£Àû has welcomed the appointment of Sir Reg Empey as Minister for employment and learning in the Northern Ireland Executive. 51¸£Àû joint general secretary Sally Hunt…
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28 March 2007
Lecturers at Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are set to take strike action again today. This is the seventh strike in the long running pay dispute…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed 51¸£Àû.  This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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9 March 2007
Sally Hunt has been elected as the first general secretary of the University and College Union. The union was formed on 1 June 2006 following a merger between the…
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8 March 2007
An industrial tribunal has ruled that further education colleges in Northern Ireland failed to pay over 70 lecturers their proper pay since 2001. The decision,…
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20 February 2007
51¸£Àû today said plans for a private university in Northern Ireland were ill-advised and contrary to what the country needs or what people want. The news come on…
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30 January 2007
Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges were hit hard by strike action on 29 January as college lecturers took their 6th day of strike action since last…
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14 December 2006
The secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, has agreed to meet a union deputation on the FE dispute on 15 January 2007 thanks to approaches from 51¸£Àû…
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30 November 2006
51¸£Àû has added its backing to an emergency fund for Iraqi academics. The fund, launched by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), will lobby the UK…
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