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• Increased student fees will force national debt to rocket, warns report The government's reforms of higher education funding, including fees of £9,000, will force public sector debt to increase by as much as £100bn over the next 20 years, warns a report released today.

• Students want more contact time as fees rise, warns report Students with the least contact time at university are the most dissatisfied, according to a new survey released today by the Higher Education policy Unit (HEPI).

• Government must urgently reconsider A4e's prison education contracts Following the news that the government has terminated A4e's Mandatory Work Activity contract after it said there were 'significant weaknesses in A4e's internal controls', UCU today said the company's prison education contracts needed to be urgently looked at.

• Anger at University of Warwick as students charged more and staff face sack The University of Warwick was accused of 'profiteering' today after it was revealed that 36 posts at the Warwick Business School face the axe, despite students facing vastly increased fees.

• Just one in 10 would undertake a college course if forced to take out a loan Just one in 10 people aged 24 and over would definitely undertake a further education course at college if controversial plans to charge student loans are brought in, according to the government's own research released today.

• Action 2012 Live! - 10 May 2012 Live blogging the 10 May 2012 strike action to defend pensions.

• UCU members in pension strike Members of UCU in colleges and universities will tomorrow take 24-hour strike action in protest against changes to their pensions.

• Staff vote for strike action at Chesterfield College Members of UCU at Chesterfield College today voted to take industrial action in a row over jobs and pay.