2014
UCU news from 2014
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17 December 2014
UCU responded to today's release of the government's science and innovation strategy by backing calls from the business, innovation and skills select committee…
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11 December 2014
UCU is today calling for a fundamental review of UK research. In a report released a week before this year's REF results, UCU says it wants to see a complete overhaul…
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10 December 2014
Flexibility should be the key driver of apprenticeship reform, UCU told the Education Select Committee today. Giving evidence to the committee as part of its inquiry…
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4 December 2014
Students who take out a new loan to fund a master's degree will effectively be paying a 50% tax rate, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) today. UCU said…
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4 December 2014
Projected cuts to public spending on post-school education in the next parliament could cause serious damage to further and higher education, UCU said today. The…
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3 December 2014
Bolder measures are needed to encourage more people into postgraduate study and to ensure the replenishment of the academic profession, UCU said today. Speaking…
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25 November 2014
The next government must look again at student finance and consider radical alternatives to the current system says UCU as it launches its 15-point pre-election…
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13 November 2014
England and Northern Ireland are propping up an international league table that ranks how many people have professional education and training qualifications, according…
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7 November 2014
The Scottish government today launching a consultation for a planned higher education governance bill next year. Mary Senior, UCU Scotland Official, said: 'UCU…
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30 October 2014
Moving teacher training away from universities and into schools, is leading to a shortage of teachers for key science, technology, engineering and maths subjects,…
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