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8 November 2012
The University of Gloucestershire's decision to embark on a partnership with the private company INTO has been labelled unnecessary and too risky today. The institution…
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25 October 2012
The UK risks becoming embroiled in serious financial scandals if private equity firms 'circling education' are not proper regulated, warns a report released today.…
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11 September 2012
UCU said today's Commons debate on college and university fees must scrutinise the role private providers play in UK higher education. The union said that as well…
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15 August 2012
Responding to the news that London Metropolitan University (LMU) is in talks to privatise its support services UCU today warned universities against putting their…
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12 July 2012
The government approved over 400 degree and diploma courses at private universities for taxpayer funding in 2011/12 without checking on the quality of courses offered…
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18 June 2012
UCU said today that the higher education sector needed proper regulation of for-profit education providers. The union was commenting on the government's response…
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18 May 2012
Staff and students at the University of Sussex will be protesting against plans to privatise university's support services next week. Campus trade unions today…
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18 May 2012
UCU has today written to the universities minister, David Willetts, calling for urgent changes to the way the government regulates private higher education providers.…
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15 May 2012
Following the news that the government has terminated A4e's Mandatory Work Activity contract after it said there were 'significant weaknesses in A4e's internal…
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17 April 2012
UCU today said the government needed to act urgently to protect UK universities and public assets from private equity firms after the College Of Law was sold off…
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