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UCU President Rob Goodfellow recently spoke at UCU Scotland Congress on the plight of Turkish academics and teachers who, amongst other things, have been subject to dismissal, employment blacklisting, passport seizure and denial of medical care.  The Turkish Trade Union, Egitim Sen, is paying monthly sums to affected individuals and efforts are being made to

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Plymouth Marjon University call for messages of support over redundancies Plymouth Marjon University (formerly The University of St Mark & St John) is in the process of pushing through 86 to 75 FTE redundancies in order to adapt to falling student enrolments and a reduction in projected income, while rejecting alternatives offered by staff and

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UCU’s 2015/16 higher education gender pay gap data report, published today, shows that the gap remains at 12% for all academics. This is driven by a continuing gender imbalance among senior academics, with women making up more than half of early career academics but only 23% of professors at universities UK wide.

A new report shows nearly a quarter of academics say they have been bullied because of their views and that the UK has significantly lower levels of protection for academic freedom when compared to other EU countries. The wide ranging survey was commissioned by UCU as part of our campaign to define and protect academic freedom

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Message from a Member: The awards and celebration of success night went really well for the Access class, and they were delighted with their awards. 12 students won £100 vouchers from the John Smith Bookshop on campus, which was very generous of them. The manager, Chris Mylles, and assistant manager, Fiona McMillan, were in attendance.

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The higher education committee (HEC) met on 21 April and made a number of important decisions in regards to the next steps in this year’s pay negotiations. The purpose of this update is to provide branches with advance notice that on Thursday 27 April, the national employers’ representatives at UCEA will make a final offer

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Dear colleagues I wrote to you last month advising of the protracted dispute at London Metropolitan University and the attempts made by the local branch officers in the last few months to negotiate a resolution. I further advised that the higher education committee (HEC) had taken the decision in October to invoke the first stage

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Auto Enrolment legislation means that every employer must automatically enrol workers into a workplace pension scheme if they: are aged between 22 and State Pension age earn more than £10,000 a year (£833.33 per month) ordinarily work in the UK. UCU has selected the Universities Superannuation Scheme ‘USS’ as its workplace pension scheme for automatic

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The TUC has launched a survey into the experiences of LGBT workers to better understand the type of sectors they are in, whether they are out about their sexual orientation and / or trans status, their experiences of discrimination and how they access justice. This survey is open to all workers, whether they are in

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