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17 December 2013
UCU has added its voice to growing calls for the government to rethink plans to slash funding for 18 year-olds studying in further education colleges from next…
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17 December 2013
The government has scrapped a loan scheme for older apprentices after it failed to attract anywhere near the number of people the government hoped. Vince Cable…
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16 December 2013
The vice-president of UCU, John McCormack, died on Friday night after a short illness. The union said John was a wonderful, principled man steeped in the trade…
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13 December 2013
UCU today called on the government to axe its failed experiment to make people aged 24 and above pay to study for an apprenticeship. Earlier this year the government…
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3 December 2013
UCU said today that strikes by staff in colleges and universities had seen some institutions closed, key learning facilities shut, hundreds of classes cancelled,…
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29 November 2013
Universities and colleges will be hit with the most widespread disruption for years on Tuesday as staff walk out in a row over pay. Classes will be cancelled in…
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20 November 2013
Members of UCU working in further education colleges in England will join their colleagues in universities on strike on Tuesday 3 December, the union said today.…
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12 November 2013
UCU today backed Ed Miliband's proposal that companies should only be able to secure large government contracts if they agree to create an apprenticeship programme.…
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23 October 2013
Too many prisoners spend too long in their cells with nothing constructive to do, warned the chief inspector of prisons today. UCU said that a more thoughtful approach…
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22 October 2013
Commenting on polling commissioned by the TES that has found only a quarter of young people were told about apprenticeships in their career lessons at school, UCU…
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