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28 January 2010
UCU said today that the government needed to act decisively to improve the chances of the poorest people in the country attending university. As new figures on…
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22 January 2010
UCU will launch its education manifesto on Tuesday (26 January) at a lobby event in Parliament to set out its key issues in all areas of post-16 education. The…
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21 January 2010
UCU today accused Manchester College of throwing the prison education sector into havoc. The college has announced plans for 250 job losses from its offender learning…
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21 January 2010
UCU said today that the failings of the government's flagship Train to Gain programme had hit the people who most desperately needed its help the hardest. Responding…
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19 January 2010
UCU will tomorrow ask Northern Ireland's MLAs to give their backing to its Make Education Count campaign. At an event at Stormont, the UCU – supported by the Ulster…
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18 January 2010
UCU today said the Conservative Party's self-titled 'brazenly elitist' policy of recruiting graduates into teaching showed absolutely no understanding of the real…
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11 December 2009
The ballot of FE college members is now open on whether to take an escalating programme of strike action to achieve an improvement on the 1.5% increase offered…
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4 December 2009
UCU today slammed Manchester College for freezing the pay of its prison education staff. The college provides teachers for 96 institutions throughout the country…
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2 December 2009
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables. In the past 12 years it has been overtaken by countries such as Portugal, New Zealand,…
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1 December 2009
UCU takes campaign to Stormont to put education back on the agenda and NI on the front foot Northern Ireland is bottom of UK tables that measure employment rates…
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