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UCU Campaigns Updates 2012

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UCU Campaigns Update 16 December 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: USS: remember the dispute, even over the holiday! --- UCU calls government to improve access as youth unemployment rises again --- UCU warns FE colleges against privatisation --- Thanks for your support: Tony Myler reinstated --- Queen Mary University’s Senate passes ‘No Confidence’ vote --- Defence of Public Education Conference, Saturday 10 March 2012 – University of London Union, Malet Street --- December edition of International News

UCU Campaigns Update 9 December 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: Academic community warns against for-profit companies -- Westminster debate on public sector pensions welcomed by UCU -- Open University staff asked to help pay their students’ fees -- Defence of Public Education Conference, Saturday 10 March 2012 – University of London Union, Malet Street -- Jobs and Education: Regaining the Trust of Young People -- Justice for Colombia Launches a New Peace Campaign -- UCU at the climate talks in Durban -- New edition of Policy News

UCU Campaigns Update 2 December 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: November 30 - Thank you for joining the millions on strike -- Record day for UCU membership as Michael Gove delivers ‘itching militants’ speech -- USS – talks on 16 December - work to contract continues -- College students hit with loans in government reforms -- A fifth of English universities reduce fee levels, while applications drop by 13% -- UCU says young people need more than a repackaged job scheme to get on -- Open University petition tops 16,000 – add your name today -- UCU rep disciplined for asking a question -- UCAS admissions review – send us your views

UCU Campaigns Update 25 November 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: General Secretary calls on all members to take strike action on 30 November -- Sally Hunt attacks out of control government spin machine -- UCU criticises universities minister over tuition fees remarks -- One in five young people not working or learning, new figures reveal -- UCU calls for government rethink as ratings agency slams ‘high-risk’ for-profits -- DeMontfort UCU defeats planned partnership with for-profit INTO -- Gove warned warm words won’t save history -- FE Focus post-mortem on death of NCG and Northumberland merger -- Politics Monthly -- TUC petition to protect women from violence

UCU Campaigns Update 18 November 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: 30 November – tens of thousands more public sector workers vote to join pensions strike -- More UCU branches vote for action -- USS talks begin and UCU challenges the valuation of the scheme -- Northumberland College fends off Newcastle College Group’s advances -- UCU calls for urgent policy rethink as youth unemployment hits one million -- Fighting the White Paper – Birkbeck and OU step up campaigns -- UCU calls for greater staff protection after college asbestos death

UCU Campaigns Update 11 November 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: General Secretary counters Times Higher attacks on UCU -- November 30 – Building for action across the whole union -- USS work-to-contract in the national press -- Select committee backs UCU calls for greater regulation of for-profits -- Privatisation under the spotlight at De Montfort University -- 27 universities and colleges seek to cut fees after government moves goalposts -- Teacher training shake-up risks decimating the profession warns UCU -- Upcoming events

UCU Campaigns Update 4 November 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: Unions respond to improved public sector pensions offer -- Government withdraws college governance reforms -- UCU delivers stinging rebuke to for-profit chief -- Leaked documents increase fears over Northumberland College merger -- UCU members ‘getting their lives back’ by doing their jobs -- Stress levels increasing in further and higher education -- University of East Anglia to close the School of Music -- Bahrain: end the violations against teachers, unionists and students -- Politics monthly -- Upcoming events

UCU Campaigns Update 28 October 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: News from the USS JNC – UCU and employers agree to talks – work-to-contract continues -- Education sector unites to lobby parliament on Teachers' Pension Scheme -- Gearing up for 30 November -- College reforms will increase risk of mismanagement and make corruption easier, warns UCU -- Figures reveal slump in university applications -- Public spending on education falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, report warns -- Barnsley College UCU prepares for strike action -- Upcoming events

UCU Campaigns Update 21 October 2011

In this week’s campaigns update: USS pensions dispute – all the latest from around the sector -- Fighting the White Paper -- 30 November -- Late changes to university fee levels highlight government's policy failings, says UCU -- Good news at Robert Gordon University -- Support colleagues at Portsmouth University -- Latest international news -- UCU Trustee, General Secretary, national officer and NEC elections – nominations currently open -- Upcoming events