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2 May 2023
UCU general secretary Jo Grady said Keir Starmer's U-turn on pledging to abolish student tuition fees in England was 'deeply disappointing' adding that 'the current,…
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7 March 2023
In response to the government's new Lifelong Loan Entitlement plans, UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: 'Piling ever more debt onto students is a tax on education…
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11 January 2023
The government's below inflation increases in student support will leave students financially exposed, said UCU. UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: 'It has taken…
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22 December 2022
Every penny of pay docked from staff who took strike action at the University of the West of England should go to students in financial hardship, said UCU.
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16 November 2022
UCU has today responded to a National Union of Students research into the impact of the cost of living crisis. Responding to the NUS report UCU general secretary…
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14 November 2022
UCU has today called on the Cambridge Trust to increase the funding it provides to PhD students at the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge Commonwealth, European…
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11 November 2022
Sunderland College, Hartlepool Sixth Form and Northumberland College are threatening to sack up to 19 staff before Christmas.
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2 November 2022
After a hard-fought campaign to protect applied general qualifications (AGQ), BTECs are here to stay, with only a few Level 3 qualifications being defunded for…
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26 October 2022
UCU welcomed Labour's Report of the Council of Skills Advisers.
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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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