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2 February 2012
UCU Scotland welcomes a report calling for increased involvement of staff and student unions in the governance of universities. The report by The Review of Higher…
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30 January 2012
The number of English students applying to Scottish universities has fallen 5.6% according to figures released by the university admissions service UCAS. The figures…
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30 January 2012
UCU has responded to news today that 10% fewer people have applied to English universities compared to this time last year. Sally Hunt, general secretary of the…
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25 January 2012
Responding to the release of the higher education funding letter today, UCU said that the government's funding plans were an untried experiment that would be disastrous…
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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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23 January 2012
On Friday 20 January, the national executive committee (NEC) of UCU voted to reject the government's reforms of the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS). The changes,…
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19 January 2012
UCU today warned that class sizes in higher education could rise after new figures revealed that the number of staff teaching in the sector had fallen as student…
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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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18 January 2012
UCU said today that the imminent grant letter from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), which details how much funding will be available for…
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