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23 March 2012
UCU says fresh revelations of potential fraud risk bringing offender learning into 'disrepute' Responding to fresh revelations of potential fraud at welfare-to-work…
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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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24 January 2012
UCU today welcomed reports that American-style government plans to allow private for-profit companies access to publicly-subsidised student loans have been shelved.…
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18 January 2012
UCU today (Wednesday) said the government's untried experiment of shifting the burden of funding degrees from the state to the student was causing chaos at universities…
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23 November 2011
University says risks of partnership with private firm outweigh potential rewards UCU today welcomed the decision by De Montfort University (DMU) not to allow the…
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18 November 2011
Birkbeck College has delivered a devastating assessment of the government's efforts to reform higher education after its academic board backed calls for the government…
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2 November 2011
As the immigration minister Damien Green today reported on the crackdown on bogus colleges, UCU called on the government to review its own plans to allow for-profit…
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13 September 2011
Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, today told the TUC Congress that he did not want education to be 'warped by the for-profit motive'. Mr Miliband was speaking in…
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7 September 2011
A new report today warned that small print in the government's higher education white paper could pave the way for existing universities to be privatised. The report…
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5 September 2011
UCU today welcomed comments from the deputy prime-minister, Nick Clegg, that schools and academies should never be run for profit, and called on him to give the…
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