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17 February 2015
David Cameron's plans to force young people not in employment, education or training (the so-called NEETs) to undertake work to receive benefits expose his party's…
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16 February 2015
UCU today welcomed plans from the Labour party for more apprenticeships. Labour leader Ed Miliband said private companies bidding for public sector contracts would…
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12 February 2015
UCU today welcomed Labour's guarantee to protect the education budget. In a speech this morning, Labour leader Ed Miliband said a Labour government would protect…
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12 February 2015
UCU today welcomed the Liberal Democrats' pledge, on the front page of its general election manifesto, to guarantee funding from nursery to college. The move would…
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6 February 2015
Politicians, polling specialists, political commentators, academics, policy experts and student leaders will debate further and higher education policy at a central…
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5 February 2015
UCU today added its support to National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) and warned that if people fail to register to vote they risk being marginalised by politicians.…
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3 February 2015
Over 500 of the UK's most senior academics have signed a letter in today's Guardian warning that controversial new laws aimed at tackling extremism would place…
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2 February 2015
Controversial government plans to place a legal duty on universities to prevent students from being drawn into terrorism are in conflict with existing freedom of…
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2 February 2015
UCU says fairer tax on big business needed to fund universities Following speculation that Labour will cut tuition fees to £6,000 a year, but not guarantee to make…
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26 January 2015
UCU members have voted to accept new proposals for their pensions and not restart a marking and assessment boycott at 69 UK institutions. Two-thirds (67.1%) of…
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