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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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3 January 2013
The number of people applying to go to university in 2013 has slumped by 5.6% overall, with the biggest drop in England (6.5%), compared to the same time a year…
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1 January 2013
UCU news from 2013
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20 December 2012
Newcastle College has been branded the 'Scrooge' of further education by UCU after it emerged that, just 24 hours before most staff break up for Christmas, it will…
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19 December 2012
Overall funding up, but teaching and research support cut UCU Scotland welcomed a real terms increase in funding for universities, but raised concerns that the…
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18 December 2012
UCU said today (Tuesday) that government plans to strip away the rights of people facing redundancy were another damaging blow for post-16 education, which has…
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13 December 2012
Commenting on the drop in the number of students at university this year, UCU said the record fall represented a failure of the government's higher education policies.…
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12 December 2012
Speaking ahead of a speech today by home secretary, Theresa May, on immigration, UCU said hardline and ill-conceived policies on immigration remained the biggest…
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12 December 2012
UCU and the National Union of Students (NUS) have today written to the minister for universities and science, David Willetts, asking him to block any moves to grant…
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6 December 2012
UCU has today written to the Public Accounts Committee asking for an inquiry into the trebling of taxpayers' money going to private providers of higher education…
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6 December 2012
UK universities' student:staff ratios (SSRs) are inaccurate and should come with a health warning, argues a paper from UCU available today. The SSR remains a significant…
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