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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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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…
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20 February 2015
UCU said today that the time had come for the Labour party to announce its plans for university funding. Speculation about whether or not Labour will cut fees to…
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17 February 2015
David Cameron's plans to force young people not in employment, education or training (the so-called NEETs) to undertake work to receive benefits expose his party's…
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16 February 2015
UCU today welcomed plans from the Labour party for more apprenticeships. Labour leader Ed Miliband said private companies bidding for public sector contracts would…
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12 February 2015
UCU today welcomed Labour's guarantee to protect the education budget. In a speech this morning, Labour leader Ed Miliband said a Labour government would protect…
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12 February 2015
UCU today welcomed the Liberal Democrats' pledge, on the front page of its general election manifesto, to guarantee funding from nursery to college. The move would…
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6 February 2015
Politicians, polling specialists, political commentators, academics, policy experts and student leaders will debate further and higher education policy at a central…
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5 February 2015
UCU today added its support to National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) and warned that if people fail to register to vote they risk being marginalised by politicians.…
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3 February 2015
Over 500 of the UK's most senior academics have signed a letter in today's Guardian warning that controversial new laws aimed at tackling extremism would place…
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2 February 2015
Controversial government plans to place a legal duty on universities to prevent students from being drawn into terrorism are in conflict with existing freedom of…
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