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4 December 2014
A petition with over 16,000 signatures was delivered to the board of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) at their meeting at the glamorous BAFTA offices…
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4 December 2014
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of students were demonstrating in the lobby of Senate House on the Coventry campus of the University of Warwick. The police were…
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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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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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27 November 2014
Lecturers at Sheffield Hallam University who are on casualised contracts want proper full-time contracts, according to a survey of staff released today. Four-fifths…
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26 November 2014
UCU members at Lambeth College have today announced a wave of strikes that will culminate in all-out indefinite strike action from 19 January if a row over contracts…
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26 November 2014
The number of people starting an apprenticeship fell by 13.7% this year and the number of adult learners dropped by 10.7%, according to government figures released…
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