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23 March 2009
UCU today welcomed the government's new white paper on informal adult education, and its pledge to spend an additional £20 million on adult learning partnerships.…
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19 March 2009
UCU and UNISON have called for urgent action from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to save college building projects. The unions have written to the LSC calling…
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12 March 2009
UCU Scotland today called on the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to drastically alter its draft corporate plan and called for a longer consultation period. The union…
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11 March 2009
Protestors at the University of Reading will today call on the institution to abandon plans to close its School of Health and Social Care. Staff and students will…
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5 March 2009
UCU today called on the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to stop using private companies to deliver prison education.…
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5 March 2009
UCU today expressed concerns that science's ability to aid the UK's path to economic recovery could be threatened by new funding arrangements for universities.…
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25 February 2009
MPs were this afternoon quizzed by over 500 adult learners over adult education funding at a mass lobby of Parliament organised by the Campaign Alliance for Lifelong…
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24 February 2009
UCU said today that a more flexible approach to higher education was to be welcomed. However, the union said the government was wrong to suggest that variable top-up…
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12 February 2009
Reading University is under fire over plans to axe its School of Health and Social Care. Critics have slammed moves to shut a department that produces social workers…
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29 January 2009
UCU today urged the government to allocate funding for basic skills to the areas that need it most. The union agreed with the assessment from the Public Accounts…
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