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19 October 2022
UCU slammed plans to scrap thousands of level 2 qualifications and said government delays to the cuts show the changes are ill thought through and should now be…
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29 September 2022
Three in five working class staff in post-16 education say their class is a barrier to career progression.
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27 April 2022
UCU said that minimum eligibility requirements for student loans 'would make a mockery of the government's proclaimed commitment to levelling up'. The union was…
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24 February 2022
UCU said abandoning admissions reform was a 'grave error' by the UK government.
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24 February 2022
UCU said that the UK government's planned changes to the university sector are an attack on working class learners in England and would shut down access to higher…
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14 July 2021
UCU said proposals to end BTECs would harm access to education. The union was responding to plans from government to reform post-16 qualifications. The plans…
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30 June 2021
UCU Scotland welcomed the progress that was made prior to the pandemic on widening access to university education, but said we need to ensure that the good progress…
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13 February 2021
In her first speech to UCU's annual congress as general secretary, Jo Grady set out the challenges workers in prison, adult, further and higher education are facing…
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2 October 2020
Manchester Metropolitan locked down 1,700 students on Friday night Last Friday night, Manchester Metropolitan University told around 1,700 students to self-isolate…
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7 September 2020
UCU says ministers and universities need to take control of the threats to public health associated with a mass return to university campuses, and not try and preemptively…
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