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15 June 2015
Hundreds of people working and studying in further education colleges will take part in a mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday in protest over funding cuts for further…
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9 April 2015
UCU today welcomed commitments from the Labour party to improve careers advice for school children if it wins the election. The union said its own recent report…
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25 March 2015
Adult education and training in England will not exist by 2020 if the government continues with its planned cuts to the adult skills budget warns new research findings…
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19 March 2015
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith is writing to the skills minister, Nick Boles, to urge him to rethink government plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as…
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18 March 2015
Luton North MP Kelvin Hopkins has criticised plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as 24%, calling the cuts "completely unacceptable". The former college…
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18 March 2015
Blaydon MP Dave Anderson is writing to the skills minister, Nick Boles, to urge him to rethink government plans to slash adult education budgets by as much as 24%.…
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18 March 2015
College lecturers are descending on Parliament today to lobby their MPs over plans to slash budgets for further education. The cuts will see college budgets reduced…
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27 February 2015
Commenting on Ed Miliband's announcement to cut tuition fees to a maximum of £6,000 a year and raise the level of maintenance grant available to students, UCU said…
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26 February 2015
UCU has warned that cuts of up to a quarter in funding for adult learning courses risks decimating further education provision and leaving millions of the most…
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20 February 2015
UCU said today that the time had come for the Labour party to announce its plans for university funding. Speculation about whether or not Labour will cut fees to…
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