UCU - 2015

Government needs to row back on private college expansion

10 July 2015

The government would put the UK's proud reputation for international excellence at serious risk if it pushed through plans to make it easier for private colleges…
UCU comment on BIS select committee's report into transatlantic trade deal

25 March 2015

The business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee has warned that the benefits of a proposed transatlantic trade deal are "impossible to quantify". In…
Controversial private college banned from recruiting students

26 February 2015

A private college that was one of the main beneficiaries of the government's move to allow for-profit companies access to public funding has been banned from recruiting…
MPs criticise government for disregarding UCU's repeated warnings on dangers of higher education privatisation

24 February 2015

The government failed to heed explicit warnings about the dangers of vast sums of public money being given to for-profit higher education colleges, says a report…