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8 March 2012
UCU has questioned the wisdom of the government sticking rigidly to controversial student finance packages for the 2013 academic year, before the impact of the…
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27 February 2012
UCU today said that improving access to education and training was a much better way of helping young people find long-term work, than asking them to work for their…
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23 February 2012
The number of full-time undergraduate courses on offer at UK universities has fallen by more than a quarter (27%) since 2006, according to a report published today…
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16 February 2012
UCU said today that changes to how students repay student loans exposed how we really are not 'all in this together'. The union said the government should be focusing…
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10 February 2012
Lowest earning students will pay back more than double what they borrow under new college fee regime Students aged over 24 who go on to earn less than the national…
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30 January 2012
The number of English students applying to Scottish universities has fallen 5.6% according to figures released by the university admissions service UCAS. The figures…
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30 January 2012
UCU has responded to news today that 10% fewer people have applied to English universities compared to this time last year. Sally Hunt, general secretary of the…
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25 January 2012
Responding to the release of the higher education funding letter today, UCU said that the government's funding plans were an untried experiment that would be disastrous…
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25 January 2012
UCU today said the government should listen to President Obama's 'timely reminder' about the importance of funding education and university research. The union…
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19 January 2012
UCU today warned that class sizes in higher education could rise after new figures revealed that the number of staff teaching in the sector had fallen as student…
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