About the network

15 unions worldwide have now signed an international agreement on defending education and employment standards in the context of global marketisation. Together, these unions represent more than half a million tertiary education workers around the world.

The deepening global recession and the cutting back of public provision will only give greater encouragement to a burgeoning private sector, making the international agreement only more relevant and important.

We are now turning this community of over 500,000 academics into something tangible.

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New briefing on KAPLAN

Please find a new briefing document, produced by UCU on KAPLAN’s presence in UK higher education. KAPLAN are on of the three large US education businesses, alongside Apollo and Laureate, that now have a foothold in UK higher education. With the new Coalition government set to encourage more private companies to step in to fill [...]

Posted by ucu campaigns on 9 August 2010
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Down and Outsourced in America

Psst, want a university course for less than the price of your monthly cell phone bill? It sounds too good to be true and it probably is. But that’s the sales pitch an American-based company is making to recession-weary college students in the U.S., according to an article published earlier this year in Inside Higher [...]

Posted by caut on 21 September 2009
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