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21 September 2011
UCU Scotland welcomed today's funding increases for higher education. In the budget statement John Swinney announced a cash increase of £76m for universities in…
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20 September 2011
The playwright, Sir Tom Stoppard, will present a petition demanding ring-fenced funding for vulnerable modern languages to the Scottish Parliament today at 2pm.…
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19 September 2011
Rich people will end up paying less than the middle classes for tuition fees because they will clear their debts quicker and avoid bigger interest payments, a new…
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14 September 2011
UCU Scotland welcomed the commitment from the Scottish government to broaden access to higher education and fund world-leading research.. Responding to the launch…
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14 September 2011
UCU today said it will be joining other unions in a day of action to defend pensions on 30 November. The union, which was one of four that took strike action in…
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13 September 2011
Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, today told the TUC Congress that he did not want education to be 'warped by the for-profit motive'. Mr Miliband was speaking in…
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13 September 2011
A report released today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals that the UK has one of the worst records for educational participation…
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9 September 2011
UCU Scotland has criticised the announcement that St Andrews University will charge £9,000 fees per year for students from the rest of the UK. In a statement* to…
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7 September 2011
A new report today warned that small print in the government's higher education white paper could pave the way for existing universities to be privatised. The report…
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7 September 2011
A new report by academics at the London School of Economics' Centre for the Economics of Education today predicted a 7.51% reduction in university entrance rates…
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