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23 April 2015
Following the publication of its own 15-point pre-election manifesto last year, the University and College Union has today launched a manifesto comparison microsite…
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21 April 2015
Members of further education trade unions across Wales will tomorrow protest at the gates of their campus buildings over proposed 50% funding cuts to adult education…
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15 April 2015
Birmingham Northfield MP Richard Burden will join UCU and the Association of Colleges (AoC) speaking out against cuts to adult education in the West Midlands this…
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15 April 2015
Staff at Lewisham Southwark College will be protesting outside the college's Lewisham Way building this afternoon from 5pm. Members of UCU are angry at plans to…
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9 April 2015
UCU today welcomed commitments from the Labour party to improve careers advice for school children if it wins the election. The union said its own recent report…
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19 March 2015
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith is writing to the skills minister, Nick Boles, to urge him to rethink government plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as…
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18 March 2015
Luton North MP Kelvin Hopkins has criticised plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as 24%, calling the cuts "completely unacceptable". The former college…
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18 March 2015
Blaydon MP Dave Anderson is writing to the skills minister, Nick Boles, to urge him to rethink government plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as 24%.…
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18 March 2015
College lecturers are descending on Parliament today to lobby their MPs over plans to slash budgets for further education. The cuts will see college budgets reduced…
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9 March 2015
The government's excessive focus on apprenticeships as an answer to youth unemployment risks making them less attractive, warns a report from the education select…
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