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20 July 2009
UCU has welcomed the announcement by the business secretary Peter Mandelson that there would be an extra 10,000 student places at universities. However, the union…
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16 July 2009
UCU today said that it welcomed the promise from the prime minister that there would be extra student places at universities this year. However, the union warned…
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16 July 2009
UCU today said that a sharp rise in graduate unemployment and increasing numbers of students not completing their first year at university did little to help a…
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9 July 2009
UCU today said potential students risked seeing their dreams shattered as a poll revealed record numbers of state school children want to go on to higher education.…
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9 July 2009
UCU today welcomed a 9.7% rise in applicants to UK universities and colleges compared to the same time last year. The union said the government had to do more to…
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8 July 2009
UCU today said government plans to allow students to study some degree courses without having to pay tuition fees if they agreed not to take up any funding support…
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2 July 2009
UCU today said the government needed to remove barriers to higher education during difficult economic times. Responding to new figures around graduate employment,…
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1 July 2009
Commenting on the news today that university tuition fees will rise by 2.04% next year, but student grants and loans will remain frozen at last year's rates, UCU…
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10 June 2009
UCU today said that it welcomed the contribution to the higher education funding debate from the National Union of Students (NUS) 'A blueprint for an alternative…
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4 June 2009
UCU today said it was outraged and astonished that universities minister, John Denham, had blamed poor teaching for an increase in the percentage of students not…
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