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UCU@GCU help students to ‘bite the ballot’
National Voter Registration Day, 5th of February saw posters put up in 100 classrooms and lecture halls at GCU giving advice to students on how to safeguard their right to vote. In a joint campaign run between UCU and the National Union of Students, 1000 students at GCU were also given a specially printed leaflet letting…
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UCU Scotland Presidential candidate outlines his views
A continued campaign of innovative activity on a whole range of issues affecting academic and academic related staff in Scotland’s universities is the way forward for the University and College Union, according to presidential hopeful Douglas Chalmers. Having served as Scottish Vice President, for the last 2 years, Douglas is hoping to be elected in the…
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UCU supports more academic freedom in universities
“Expanding academic freedom in universities is is something that everyone connected to education in Scotland should be in support of” said Douglas Chalmers, local president of UCU at Glasgow Caledonian, following the branch’s submission to the current government consultation on higher education governance. The submission can be downloaded here. “The experience of the recent referendum…
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GCU Staff commemorate Holocaust memorial day 2015
Under the slogan ‘Keep the Memory Alive’ Glasgow Caledonian University’s branch of the UCU distributed materials on the Holocaust on 27th January – the day that marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. Working with members of the Gathering the Voices organisation which is in partnership with GCU, and funded by…
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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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