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2 May 2023
UCU general secretary Jo Grady said Keir Starmer's U-turn on pledging to abolish student tuition fees in England was 'deeply disappointing' adding that 'the current,…
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2 November 2022
After a hard-fought campaign to protect applied general qualifications (AGQ), BTECs are here to stay, with only a few Level 3 qualifications being defunded for…
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19 October 2022
UCU slammed plans to scrap thousands of level 2 qualifications and said government delays to the cuts show the changes are ill thought through and should now be…
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30 June 2022
UCU has today called on universities to invest in their staff as the latest financial sustainability report published by the Office for Students (OfS) showed universities…
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24 February 2022
UCU said that the UK government's planned changes to the university sector are an attack on working class learners in England and would shut down access to higher…
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1 February 2022
New 'elite' sixth form colleges will divide 16 year olds into winners and losers said UCU.
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25 November 2021
UCU said the current funding model for higher education, which is predicated on student a toxic system of debt, must be abandoned.
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25 November 2021
UCU urged vice-chancellors to invest in university staff so that higher education can continue to play a vital role in social mobility.
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27 October 2021
In response to the UK government's autumn budget, UCU said the 'elephant in the room' remains the lack of trained college staff to meet the budget's ambitions.…
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27 October 2021
UCU Scotland has welcomed the Scottish government's commitment to multi-year funding settlements for the university sector but says this needs to be matched by…
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