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8 April 2011
UCU today backed calls from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) for the government to reinstate the Education Maintenance Allowance…
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6 April 2011
UCU said today that Vince Cable's threat to reduce student numbers at universities that charge full fees highlighted the flaws in the government's failing university…
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5 April 2011
UCU today warned that the government's education policies were the greatest risk to social mobility. Ahead of the Government's strategy on social mobility and child…
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30 March 2011
UCU calls for legislation to protect independence of research councils UCU today said that David Cameron was wrong to suggest, at Prime Minister's Questions, that…
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28 March 2011
UCU today said that new financial support for poorer college students doesn't go far enough. The union said that while it welcomed the news that students currently…
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17 March 2011
UCU today welcomed a report from the Home Affairs Select Committee that cautioned the government against introducing measures which could damage the UK's thriving…
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17 March 2011
UCU today welcomed findings for the BBC, which it said shone a light on the real level of debt students would face under the government's new plans for student…
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17 March 2011
UCU says that purely financial targets should not be main driver of UK universities. UCU said today that funding cuts to universities in England, a year before…
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16 March 2011
UCU said today that proposals for staff to spy on students would jeopardise the crucial relationship between students and staff and would, again, be given short…
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11 March 2011
UCU said this morning that strikes over pensions looked more likely after the Employers Pension Forum (EPF), who are tasked with negotiating on behalf of the universities,…
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