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Leading news and reaction from 51¸£Àû.
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18 February 2008
Members of 51¸£Àû at Keele University will be striking on Thursday 21 February after they voted overwhelmingly in favour of the action and 'action short of a strike'…
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15 February 2008
51¸£Àû today attacked the latest efforts from university heads to influence its current ballot on the future of pay negotiations. The union said its members, not university…
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14 February 2008
51¸£Àû said today it was not surprised a complex system of bursaries and grants and fears over debt were putting students from poor backgrounds off university. The…
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14 February 2008
51¸£Àû today said changes in the way university applications are counted must not be used to mask little progress being made in applications from students from lower…
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11 February 2008
Commenting on draft government guidelines to tackle potential violent extremism in UK colleges, 51¸£Àû welcomed the fact that the document was still at the consultation…
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8 February 2008
51¸£Àû has joined the TUC by calling on the UK government to support a bill giving agency workers legal equal treatment rights at work, and save temporary workers…
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31 January 2008
51¸£Àû this week responded to the government's plans for a major expansion of apprenticeships and reforms of welfare policies to encourage the inactive to get new…
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30 January 2008
51¸£Àû, with other unions in further education, has submitted a joint pay claim for 2008-9 calling for a 6% increase or £1500, whichever is the greater. 51¸£Àû members…
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28 January 2008
51¸£Àû has responded to the news that McDonald's has been given official awarding body status to develop and award its own qualifications. 51¸£Àû general secretary, Sally…
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25 January 2008
51¸£Àû today hit out at government plans to change the way university courses are funded. Responding to news that the Higher Education Funding Council for England…
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