2014
UCU news from 2014
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17 December 2014
Over half of graduates intending to continue with postgraduate study end up not doing so, and cite financial reasons as the biggest barrier to continuing their…
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16 December 2014
An influential group of MPs has torn into the government over its failings to account for public money as it rubberstamped the expansion of private for-profit colleges.…
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15 December 2014
Call for tougher legislation comes as BIS and the Student Loans Company are called to explain problems behind explosion of for-profit courses and distribution of…
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8 December 2014
• Privately educated children more than twice as likely to want to go to university as college students • Boys are significantly less likely to want to go than…
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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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2 December 2014
Students at alternative higher education providers have claimed taxpayer-backed financial support they were not entitled to and 20% of students were not even properly…
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27 November 2014
Universities performing best at recruiting trainee teachers according to new government data Schools across England are at risk of teacher shortages in key subject…
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10 November 2014
UCU has said that simple cost-benefit analysis of teacher training routes doesn't address the long-term threats to university education departments caused by competitive…
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23 October 2014
UCU today criticised proposals to replace government-backed student loans with contracts where students pay universities a proportion of their lifetime earnings.…
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20 October 2014
New report shows Britain is on the brink of becoming a permanently divided nation. Commenting on today's Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission's report that…
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