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10 April 2013
The gap between boys and girls going to university from the poorest backgrounds widened in the first year of the new tuition fees regime, according to new analysis…
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9 April 2013
London Metropolitan University will again be allowed to recruit international students from today after the Home Office ended the revocation of its visa licence.…
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3 April 2013
UCU said today (Wednesday) that any new money for colleges was to be welcomed, but said far greater investment was required to open up opportunity to the thousands…
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18 March 2013
UCU today said Lord Heseltine's report needed to genuinely embrace democratic collaboration at a local level if people were to access decent education. The recommendations…
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15 March 2013
A report released today warns that some universities will need to work hard to increase surpluses to meeting borrowing obligations. The report¹ says that if surpluses…
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14 March 2013
UCU today welcomed warm words from the government regarding apprenticeships and drew attention to the huge contribution they are predicted to make to the economy…
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14 March 2013
Young people from the most advantaged backgrounds are three times more likely to go university than those from the least and they are six to nine times more likely…
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5 March 2013
UCU has today highlighted a new report's finding that a cut to universities' widening participation budgets would do lasting damage to disadvantaged young people.…
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4 March 2013
Staff at Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) have delivered a damning vote of no confidence in the institution's deputy vice-chancellor Professor Sally Glen. Members…
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28 February 2013
Figures for university entry this autumn do not demonstrate that applications are back on track, warned UCU today. Although there has been a rise compared to 2012,…
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