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8 July 2015
UCU has condemned plans in today's budget to convert university maintenance grants for low income students into loans of up to £8,200 and has said it will oppose…
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17 June 2015
Students should apply to university after they receive their exam results, says a new report released by UCU. Seven in 10 staff back a move to university applications…
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12 June 2015
UCU has said that maintenance grants provide crucial support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter higher education, and should be retained. The…
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27 February 2015
Commenting on Ed Miliband's announcement to cut tuition fees to a maximum of £6,000 a year and raise the level of maintenance grant available to students, UCU said…
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17 February 2015
David Cameron's plans to force young people not in employment, education or training (the so-called NEETs) to undertake work to receive benefits expose his party's…
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5 February 2015
UCU today added its support to National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) and warned that if people fail to register to vote they risk being marginalised by politicians.…
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2 February 2015
UCU says fairer tax on big business needed to fund universities Following speculation that Labour will cut tuition fees to £6,000 a year, but not guarantee to make…
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15 January 2015
Part-time student enrolments for UK higher education fell by 7% between 2012/13 and 2013/14, following a fall of 22% in the previous year when the part-time tuition…
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17 December 2014
Over half of graduates intending to continue with postgraduate study end up not doing so, and cite financial reasons as the biggest barrier to continuing their…
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16 December 2014
An influential group of MPs has torn into the government over its failings to account for public money as it rubberstamped the expansion of private for-profit colleges.…
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