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9 February 2018
Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell has given 51¸£Àû members a boost in their fight to save their pensions by refusing to deliver a lecture while staff are on strike…
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2 February 2018
February strike dates set in USS pensions row Fourteen days of strikes at 61 UK universities will begin on Thursday 22 February, 51¸£Àû announced on Monday . An escalating…
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26 January 2018
February strikes look like a reality in USS pensions row After Universities UK (UUK) refused to budge from its position of scrapping defined benefits in retirement…
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7 December 2017
Staff and students at the University of Birmingham will be staging a protest in University Square by the Staff House steps at 1pm on Friday. 51¸£Àû members are currently…
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1 December 2017
Controversial University of Southampton vice-chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden has been accused of insulting staff and being out of touch after it was revealed…
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22 November 2017
Staff at the University of Bath will protest at a meeting of the university's main governing body next week if there are not sweeping changes at the top At a meeting…
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14 November 2017
Up to 75 lecturers' jobs are at risk at the University of Southampton across six departments in a restructuring process described by 51¸£Àû as "rushed and dangerous"…
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27 October 2017
Academic freedom row as MP demands list of Brexit professors Responding to news on Tuesday that Conservative whip Chris Heaton-Harris MP had written to universities…
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20 October 2017
51¸£Àû members overwhelmingly back strike action to defend pensions 51¸£Àû members this week overwhelmingly backed strike action to defend their pensions. Eighty-seven…
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20 October 2017
Ashton-under-Lyne MP and shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has told the University of Manchester to "get its house in order" and "give workers the respect…
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