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• UCU national official awarded MBE for services to adult education Dan Taubman, UCU senior national official, will today be appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Birthday 2009 Honours List for services to adult learning.

• London Met protests over jobs cull Staff and students at London Metropolitan University will protest from 4pm on Monday 15 June in their ongoing fight to save over 550 jobs.

• Strike threat at City of Bristol College in job loss row UCU today announced that it is balloting members at City of Bristol College for strike action over job losses.

• Unions slam employers over broken promise on pay offer The six further education trade unions - the Association for College Management (ACM), the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), the GMB, the University and College Union (UCU), UNISON and UNITE - today accused college employers of breaking their promise over staff pay.

• Union calls for answers as Jaguar and Landrover trainees leave 'motor city' UCU today called on Warwickshire College and Coventry City College to end the confusion over the future of Jaguar and Land Rover apprenticeships in the region.

• UCU response to NUS alternative blueprint for higher education funding UCU today said that it welcomed the contribution to the higher education funding debate from the National Union of Students (NUS)

• University of Westminster slammed over failed pay deal UCU today slammed the University of Westminster for its failure to deliver three years' worth of back pay owed to staff.