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2 February 2010
51¸£Àû has called on the government to abandon plans for adult learning cuts after college leaders warned that hundreds of courses may face the axe A survey by the…
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Just 4% of Britain's poorest go to university; we need action not complacency 51¸£Àû tells ministers28 January 2010
51¸£Àû said today that the government needed to act decisively to improve the chances of the poorest people in the country attending university. As new figures on…
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22 January 2010
51¸£Àû will launch its education manifesto on Tuesday (26 January) at a lobby event in Parliament to set out its key issues in all areas of post-16 education. The…
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21 January 2010
51¸£Àû today accused Manchester College of throwing the prison education sector into havoc. The college has announced plans for 250 job losses from its offender learning…
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21 January 2010
51¸£Àû said today that the failings of the government's flagship Train to Gain programme had hit the people who most desperately needed its help the hardest. Responding…
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19 January 2010
51¸£Àû will tomorrow ask Northern Ireland's MLAs to give their backing to its Make Education Count campaign. At an event at Stormont, the 51¸£Àû – supported by the Ulster…
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18 January 2010
51¸£Àû today said the Conservative Party's self-titled 'brazenly elitist' policy of recruiting graduates into teaching showed absolutely no understanding of the real…
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11 December 2009
The ballot of FE college members is now open on whether to take an escalating programme of strike action to achieve an improvement on the 1.5% increase offered…
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4 December 2009
51¸£Àû today slammed Manchester College for freezing the pay of its prison education staff. The college provides teachers for 96 institutions throughout the country…
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2 December 2009
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables. In the past 12 years it has been overtaken by countries such as Portugal, New Zealand,…
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