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4 March 2015
Report reveals UK vice-chancellors earn £260,000 on average and are spending thousands on luxury flights and hotel accommodation, while universities deny access…
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27 February 2015
Commenting on Ed Miliband's announcement to cut tuition fees to a maximum of £6,000 a year and raise the level of maintenance grant available to students, UCU said…
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26 February 2015
A private college that was one of the main beneficiaries of the government's move to allow for-profit companies access to public funding has been banned from recruiting…
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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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24 February 2015
The government failed to heed explicit warnings about the dangers of vast sums of public money being given to for-profit higher education colleges, says a report…
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20 February 2015
UCU said today that the time had come for the Labour party to announce its plans for university funding. Speculation about whether or not Labour will cut fees to…
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6 February 2015
Politicians, polling specialists, political commentators, academics, policy experts and student leaders will debate further and higher education policy at a central…
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3 February 2015
Over 500 of the UK's most senior academics have signed a letter in today's Guardian warning that controversial new laws aimed at tackling extremism would place…
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2 February 2015
Controversial government plans to place a legal duty on universities to prevent students from being drawn into terrorism are in conflict with existing freedom of…
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2 February 2015
UCU says fairer tax on big business needed to fund universities Following speculation that Labour will cut tuition fees to £6,000 a year, but not guarantee to make…
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