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18 September 2008
51¸£Àû today blamed financial mismanagement at the University of Plymouth for the announcement of over 100 academic staff redundancies. The union said it was disingenuous…
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4 September 2008
51¸£Àû said today that a key ruling on university rules sent a clear message to all institutions that they cannot ride roughshod over regulation and warned any that…
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29 July 2008
Staff at the University of Wales, Lampeter, are protesting today over proposed job cuts. The protestors also warned that if the University does not halt plans for…
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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 51¸£Àû. 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
51¸£Àû 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
51¸£Àû 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
51¸£Àû said today that it will be fighting compulsory redundancy in the computing department at Liverpool Hope University. 51¸£Àû 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 51¸£Àû. 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. 51¸£Àû's annual national Congress in Manchester…
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