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 [...]
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Many thanks to those unions who sent messages of protest to the Vice Chancellor of London Metropolitan University and circulated our call to ‘greylist’ the university. The following update went out to all our members at the end of last week. Support for London Met campaign as greylisting continues to bite: The campaign to Save London Metropolitan [...] Please find below a letter from UCU’s General Secretary Sally Hunt to all signatories of the international agreement and a request for your help. Jonathan Dear colleague Support the “Greylisting” of London Metropolitan University UCU has instituted the greylisting of London Metropolitan University in protest at plans to cut 550 jobs. This means that we are asking UCU members who [...] The UK’s University and College Union has warned universities and colleges to think very carefully before entering partnerships with private firms after new research showed that every single joint venture between the private company INTO University Partnerships and its partner university or college made a loss in 2007-08 – the most recent figures available. The [...] UCU campaign briefing on INTO This briefing was produced as part of UCU’s campaign against INTO’s plans to set up a joint venture with Queen’s University Belfast in January 2009. It was aimed at the university’s governing body. |
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