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12 February 2013
The lack of skilled workers is hampering the fight against cyber crime, warned a report released today (Tuesday) has warned. The number of IT and cyber security…
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8 February 2013
Britain's cities are blighted by hotspots of educational under-achievement where a high percentage of residents have no qualifications, according to new analysis…
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7 February 2013
Members of UCU at Halesowen College will take strike action next Thursday (Valentine's Day) as part of their increasingly bitter dispute over the sacking of four…
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4 February 2013
Members of UCU at Halesowen College have voted in favour of strike action as a bitter dispute over the sacking of four maths lecturers continues. The union is expected…
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31 January 2013
UCU Scotland has welcomed figures that showed a 7.1% increase in student applications to Scottish universities and an increase of 2% in Scots applying to UK institutions.…
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31 January 2013
The chairs of five influential committees of cross-party MPs and peers* will today write to the prime minister to urge him to remove international students from…
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30 January 2013
Today's figures for university entry this autumn do not demonstrate that applications are back on track, warned UCU. The union said that applications should have…
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29 January 2013
The number of people starting engineering and advanced manufacturing apprenticeships has increased by more than 85% in the past two years, according to new figures…
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29 January 2013
A report, published today by UCU, warns that at the current pace of change it will take almost 40 years (38.8) for the proportion of female professors to reach…
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25 January 2013
Anyone aged 24 and above who wants to do high level apprenticeship, such as in engineering, will have to pay thousands of pounds to do the work-based course if…
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