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• UCU says NHS training cash cannot be trusted to DoH UCU today demanded the government stops cuts to the education and training budgets in the National Health Service, following the announcement of the NHS end of year financial figures.

• Redundancies at Cardiff University rejected by UCU In response to proposals by Cardiff University to make 22 academic and other staff redundant, UCU at Cardiff released a statement today rejecting compulsory redundancies as unnecessary and premature.

• Bournemouth University rapped by lecturers' union Bournemouth University was taken to task today by lecturers at the inaugural UCU congress. Delegates from across the UK backed a motion from staff at Bournemouth University that strongly criticised the University's handling of staff contracts.

• UCU boycott motion vote The motion passed at UCU congress on Wednesday 30 May calls for a process of providing information and engaging in dialogue. It does not call directly for an academic boycott of any Israeli institutions. The National Executive Committee will in the near future be considering what action it should take in relation to all the motions passed at congress.