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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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4 June 2009
UCU today said that the drop in students from the poorest backgrounds studying at UK universities, coupled with an increase in the number of first degree students…
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19 May 2009
The number of complaints lodged by students against their universities increased by 23 per cent in 2008 from the previous year, according to the Office of the Independent…
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7 May 2009
Union says national agreement to prevent jobs crisis needed to protect quality of higher education in the UK. UCU today said that concerns about the amount of staff…
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