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1 October 2010
Analysis by UCU of fees charged by publicly-funded universities around the world reveals that increasing fees to £5,000-a-year would be enough to give England the…
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30 September 2010
UCU has welcomed the government's commitment to the Scottish four-year honours degree in a Holyrood debate on higher education. The debate was called by the Conservative…
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28 September 2010
UCU has today delivered its submission to the government's 2010 spending review and calls for a fundamental rethink of plans to cut education funding. The union…
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27 September 2010
UCU today said the UK risked undermining its position as a global leader in higher education if it pushed ahead with huge increases in university fees and allowed…
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23 September 2010
UCU today called for a national student bursary scheme. The union was responding to a report from the Office For Fair Access (OFFA) that shows the biggest student…
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22 September 2010
UCU today said the business secretary, Vince Cable, was wrong to tell the Liberal Democrat conference that the only way to maintain excellence in UK higher education…
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22 September 2010
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of graduates say they would not have been able to study at university if tuition fees had been £6,000-a-year and a similar amount (62%)…
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21 September 2010
Tax, loan or fee? It's the lifetime cost of university that matters, not what politicians call it, responds UCU UCU today said that however politicians dressed…
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18 September 2010
Two-fifths (39%) of people who identify as Liberal Democrat are less likely to vote Liberal Democrat because of the party's failure to reaffirm their opposition…
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16 September 2010
UCU has today written to universities minister, David Willetts, urging him not to relax regulations to enable private companies to move into publicly-funded higher…
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