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Glasgow Caledonian Staff and students show support for democratic change
Postcards supporting democratic change were being signed at the rate of more than one a minute, during a brief lunchtime pop up stall run by the UCU at Glasgow Caledonian University. Almost 70 pledges of support for change – and in favour of taking current Scottish government proposals for change even further – were signed by…
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Education Minister wants our views on running GCU
Angela Constance, the Cabinet Secretary for Education in the Scottish Government is interested in your views on how GCU, and other universities are governed. All university campus unions are in favour of democratising higher education governance and will be making sure their members’ voices are heard in this debate. We want open elections for chairs…
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GCU Union and management joint statement published
Today, for the first time, the unions and management at Glasgow Caledonian University have jointly published an assessment of the past years work and our priorities for the coming year. Available via a link in the Caledonian Connected or downloadable from here, the statement outlines the achievements of 2013-2014 and looks forward to joint work together to…
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GCU unions to help make universities accountable
At the start of October 2014, the UCU, EIS, Unison and Unite, held a joint conference in Edinburgh looking towards the future and entitled ‘Re-imagining the University’. Major statements on the future of Higher Education were made by Mike Russell, Kezia Dugdale, Alice Brown, and Robin Parker. The major speakers from the conference can be seen…
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Joint statement agreed between GCU Unions and management on past year’s work and future priorities
The university unions and GCU management have for the first time adopted a joint assessment of the past year’s work. This has been published in the form of a joint chairs’ statement from Douglas Chalmers, current chair of the Joint Consultative Committee, and Jan Hulme, University Secretary. This was adopted after several discussions at the…
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Caledonian UCU Annual General Meeting looks forward to 2015
Banners, bulletins and big ideas were among the topics discussed at the UCU’s seventh Annual General Meeting held in the last week of Trimester A. Clare Hunter led a discussion on the proposed banner motifs and keywords that would best express our aims as key representatives of the University community, championing the concept of a University for…
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Ending Casualised contracts at Glasgow Caledonian
The UCU branch at Glasgow Caledonian held a day of action and a drop-in advice clinic on November 5th campaigning for an end to casualised contracts at Glasgow Caledonian University. This was well supported by staff and students as shown by our flickr feed – which only covers some of the events of the day https://www.flickr.com/photos/caledonianunion/ Although…
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The scandal of unpaid overtime at GCU and elsewhere
Teaching and educational professionals are the group of workers most likely to be putting in unpaid overtime and clocking up the most free hours a week, according to figures released by the TUC – and there is no reason to believe GCU is any different in this The University and College Union (UCU) said the figures,…
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Countdown to marking boycott on April 28th
UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt has written to members to confirm that a date has been set for members to begin an assessment boycott in the current pay dispute. She wrote: ‘The Higher Education Committee met to review the current dispute and agree next steps. It was noted that members had already taken substantial industrial…
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GCU Trade Unions send congratulations to students for active elections
Trade Unions at GCU today sent greetings to the GCU students who are nearing the end of their elections for their local student association officers, and pledged to continue to work with the new officers in the interests of the staff, students and the wider University. “We are really pleased to see what appears to…
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