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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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26 February 2015
UCU has warned that cuts of up to a quarter in funding for adult learning courses risks decimating further education provision and leaving millions of the most…
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25 February 2015
Almost 700,000 people say their main employment is on a zero-hours contract, an increase of 111,000 on the previous year, according to a report out today. The analysis…
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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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