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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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15 December 2014
Call for tougher legislation comes as BIS and the Student Loans Company are called to explain problems behind explosion of for-profit courses and distribution of…
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10 December 2014
Flexibility should be the key driver of apprenticeship reform, UCU told the Education Select Committee today. Giving evidence to the committee as part of its inquiry…
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8 December 2014
• Privately educated children more than twice as likely to want to go to university as college students • Boys are significantly less likely to want to go than…
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4 December 2014
Students who take out a new loan to fund a master's degree will effectively be paying a 50% tax rate, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) today. UCU said…
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2 December 2014
Students at alternative higher education providers have claimed taxpayer-backed financial support they were not entitled to and 20% of students were not even properly…
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