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28 April 2008
¹ÏÉñÍø FE members in Wales have won written confirmation from the Welsh Assembly Government that the national pay scales and parity with teachers will be maintained…
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15 April 2008
Lecturers in every Welsh FE college will strike for one day on Wednesday 16 April. The dispute has been called by the lecturers' union ¹ÏÉñÍø following the failure…
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4 March 2008
¹ÏÉñÍø is to ballot members in all Welsh further education colleges for strike action and non-strike sanctions in a dispute over pay with the Welsh college employers'…
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4 June 2007
In response to proposals by Cardiff University to make 22 academic and other staff redundant, ¹ÏÉñÍø at Cardiff released a statement today rejecting compulsory redundancies…
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17 May 2007
¹ÏÉñÍø has awarded its first two 'Life Changers' grants of £3,000 to a reformed criminal and an eminent criminologist. Joe Baden and Professor Dick Hobbs were voted…
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21 April 2007
An obsession with skills has undermined the idea of education and allowed politicians and policy wonks to do away with education, Dr Dennis Hayes, joint president…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed ¹ÏÉñÍø.  This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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9 March 2007
Sally Hunt has been elected as the first general secretary of the University and College Union. The union was formed on 1 June 2006 following a merger between the…
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14 December 2006
The threat of industrial action is looming in Wales after college employers failed to agree to talks on lecturers' hours, holidays and workloads, despite continued…
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30 November 2006
¹ÏÉñÍø has added its backing to an emergency fund for Iraqi academics. The fund, launched by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), will lobby the UK…
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