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1 February 2010
UCU today said planned cuts for higher education exposed the failings of the government's confused university funding policies. The union said the cuts, coupled…
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28 January 2010
UCU today said it did not believe offering potential students hypothetical graduate premiums for different degrees was a helpful contribution to the debate on student…
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28 January 2010
UCU said today that the government needed to act decisively to improve the chances of the poorest people in the country attending university. As new figures on…
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27 January 2010
UCU today said that changes to the grant system had heaped more misery on students. Figures published today by the Student Loans Company (SLC) showed a drop in…
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22 January 2010
UCU will launch its education manifesto on Tuesday (26 January) at a lobby event in Parliament to set out its key issues in all areas of post-16 education. The…
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21 January 2010
UCU said today that the failings of the government's flagship Train to Gain programme had hit the people who most desperately needed its help the hardest. Responding…
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21 January 2010
UCU today said ambitious government plans to expand opportunity at university looked ridiculous next to swingeing cuts across the higher education sector. UCU said…
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8 December 2009
UCU today said that Britain could not afford another repeat of this year's student loans fiasco. Responding to a damning report by Professor Sir Deian Hopkin into…
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6 December 2009
UCU today said that plans to fund a national service-style civilian scheme, paid for by increasing student debt, were absolutely ludicrous. The union said it was…
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3 December 2009
UCU today called for a national bursary scheme for student financial support. Responding to a report from the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) looking at the impact,…
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