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15 December 2010
Responding to this evening's vote in the House of Lords, which approved government plans to raise tuition fees, UCU described the decision as huge blow to students…
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14 December 2010
Government must heed America warnings, warns UCU UCU said today that encouraging the growth of for-profit companies in higher education risked damaging the UK's…
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14 December 2010
Staff at UK universities have overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes from their employers to their pension schemes. In a ballot of over 31,000 people conducted…
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13 December 2010
Labour leader Ed Miliband today backed the campaign against the abolition of the education maintenance allowance. In an interview with the Save EMA campaign, the…
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13 December 2010
Students, staff and trade unions are uniting for a day of action on Monday as part of their campaign to save the education maintenance allowance (EMA). Colleges…
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10 December 2010
The coalition government have won a vote but lost the argument over tuition fees. Once again the democratic deficit in British society has been revealed as being…
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9 December 2010
UCU said today that there were no winners in plans to lift the cap on fees to replace the money lost through an 80% cut to university teaching budgets. MPs voted…
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9 December 2010
UCU and the National Unions Students (NUS) have today backed a cross-party amendment tabled in parliament to stop the vote to increase university tuition fees.…
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9 December 2010
Students, lecturers and pupils from across Scotland to protest Westminster's fees vote Students from across Scotland will join lecturers, pupils and their communities…
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9 December 2010
As politicians prepare to vote on the level of university tuition fees, new figures reveal that English universities will have to charge average fees of almost…
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