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10 December 2013
UCU strongly supports the right of students to protest against the privatisation of higher education, higher fees and the sale of the student loan book to fund…
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29 November 2013
Government ignored repeated warnings that there needed to be a cap on student recruitment • BIS insisted earlier this year that everything was under control and…
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19 November 2013
Taxpayers have been hit with an £80m bill after private colleges took advantage of state-funded student loans and went on a recruitment drive. This figure was revealed…
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12 November 2013
UCU today backed Ed Miliband's proposal that companies should only be able to secure large government contracts if they agree to create an apprenticeship programme.…
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7 November 2013
UCU today warned against making higher education overly reliant on private sources of funding. A new report on the future of universities' funding concludes that…
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24 October 2013
Figures released today show an increase in overall numbers of young people going to university. However, UCU warned that a raft of policies will do little to close…
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22 October 2013
Commenting on polling commissioned by the TES that has found only a quarter of young people were told about apprenticeships in their career lessons at school, UCU…
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21 October 2013
David Willetts's call for a 'cultural change back towards teaching' in UK universities is at odds with his government's creation of a 'funding monster' that values…
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17 October 2013
UCU today welcomed calls from Alan Milburn, Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, to help the poorest families in society. The union said the…
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16 October 2013
High levels of unemployment and record levels of people in part-time work are bad news for young people, who have suffered the most when it comes to pay, said UCU…
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