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29 March 2012
The proportion of students who dropped out after their first year at university has increased, particularly among those from disadvantaged areas, according to figures…
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29 March 2012
English universities will see their teaching budgets slashed by a third this academic year (2012/13) and there will be 11,000 fewer student places available as…
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28 March 2012
Around 150 jobs are at risk at Salford University after the university today announced a sixth round of job cuts in less than a year. UCU said the latest round…
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27 March 2012
Members of UCU and National Union of Teachers (NUT) at schools, colleges and universities across London will tomorrow take strike action in protest against changes…
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27 March 2012
UCU today welcomed the news that staff in further education colleges would no longer be forced to pay a fee to do their job. An independent panel said the Institute…
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23 March 2012
Michael Russell, cabinet secretary welcomes the HE governance review with the presidents of UCU and NUS Scotland. Addressing delegates and guests at UCU Scotland…
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23 March 2012
UCU says fresh revelations of potential fraud risk bringing offender learning into 'disrepute' Responding to fresh revelations of potential fraud at welfare-to-work…
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23 March 2012
The cabinet secretary for education, Michael Russell, will be quizzed on his plans for higher education at UCU Scotland's annual congress. University governance,…
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21 March 2012
UCU said today that additional cuts to corporation tax^ were not the way to get the UK back on track. The union said corporation tax should rise and the money used…
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16 March 2012
UCU today confirmed that its members in further education colleges and post-92 universities in London will join with members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT)…
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