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20 July 2015
Students from the poorest families will leave university owing 'substantially more' to the government than their richer peers, warns analysis of changes to student…
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16 July 2015
Bradford College has announced proposals to axe nine full-time teaching jobs after losing funding for courses to help jobseekers improve their English. The college…
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8 July 2015
UCU last night won the coveted best campaign award at the TUC/Warners Trade Union Communications Awards. The union picked up the gong for its work in fighting against…
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1 July 2015
Universities minister Jo Johnson gave a speech on higher education this morning. Responding to the speech , UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Everyone wants…
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26 June 2015
Supporters of a cross-sector campaign calling for greater investment in further education have delivered a petition with over 42,000 signatures to Downing Street…
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15 June 2015
Hundreds of people working and studying in further education colleges will take part in a mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday in protest over funding cuts for further…
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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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25 March 2015
Adult education and training in England will not exist by 2020 if the government continues with its planned cuts to the adult skills budget warns new research findings…
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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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