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20 March 2013
Chancellor says education is key long-term policy, but fails to back warm words with investment Education is key to driving growth and ensuring the country can…
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18 March 2013
51¸£Àû today said Lord Heseltine's report needed to genuinely embrace democratic collaboration at a local level if people were to access decent education. The recommendations…
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15 March 2013
51¸£Àû today said a robust, open and fair bidding process was needed to ensure the long-term viability of decent education for students in Kent. The union was responding…
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15 March 2013
A report released today warns that some universities will need to work hard to increase surpluses to meeting borrowing obligations. The report¹ says that if surpluses…
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14 March 2013
51¸£Àû today welcomed warm words from the government regarding apprenticeships and drew attention to the huge contribution they are predicted to make to the economy…
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14 March 2013
Young people from the most advantaged backgrounds are three times more likely to go university than those from the least and they are six to nine times more likely…
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5 March 2013
51¸£Àû has today highlighted a new report's finding that a cut to universities' widening participation budgets would do lasting damage to disadvantaged young people.…
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4 March 2013
The number of UK universities in the world's top 100 based has fallen for a second successive year, according to new reputation-based rankings released today by…
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28 February 2013
Figures for university entry this autumn do not demonstrate that applications are back on track, warned 51¸£Àû today. Although there has been a rise compared to 2012,…
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18 February 2013
Changes to the way universities are funded will result in economic costs over six times higher than any savings, warns a new report released today. 51¸£Àû said slashing…
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