In This Section
Search
Browse by Month

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
New Staff - Special Offer! If you join within 30 days of the start of your employment, UCU will waive the normal 90-day waiting period for access to advice, support and legal assistance. Learn More

National UCU Facebook National UCU Twitter National UCU YouTube National UCU RSS

RSS

News in January 2013

Committee chairs add pressure on PM over international students

31 January 2013 Committee chairs add pressure on PM over international students The chairs of five influential committees of cross-party MPs and peers will today write to the prime minister to urge him to remove international students from net migration targets.

Scottish University applications increase

30 January 2013 Scottish University applications increase UCU Scotland today welcomed figures that showed a 7 per cent increase in student applications to Scottish universities and an increase of 2 per cent in Scots applying to UK institutions.

Report highlights lack of women and BME university professors

29 January 2013 Report highlights lack of women and BME university professors A report, published today by UCU, warns that at the current pace of change it will take almost 40 years (38.8) for the proportion of female professors to reach the same level as the proportion of female staff in universities and almost 16 years (15.8) for black and minority ethnic (BME) staff.

Apprentices will have to pay to work

25 January 2013 Apprentices will have to pay to work Anyone aged 24 and above who wants to do high level apprenticeship, such as in engineering, will have to pay thousands of pounds to do the work-based course if the government does not rethink how it funds adult education, warned UCU, the National Union of Students (NUS), Unison and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) today.

£10k pay increase for university bosses as staff endure pay cuts

10 January 2013 £10k pay increase for university bosses as staff endure pay cuts Vice-chancellors at Britain's most selective universities were criticised today for enjoying huge pay rises as their staff endured year-on-year real terms pay cuts.