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9 July 2009
51¸£Àû today said potential students risked seeing their dreams shattered as a poll revealed record numbers of state school children want to go on to higher education.…
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9 July 2009
51¸£Àû today welcomed a 9.7% rise in applicants to UK universities and colleges compared to the same time last year. The union said the government had to do more to…
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8 July 2009
51¸£Àû today said government plans to allow students to study some degree courses without having to pay tuition fees if they agreed not to take up any funding support…
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2 July 2009
51¸£Àû today said the government needed to remove barriers to higher education during difficult economic times. Responding to new figures around graduate employment,…
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1 July 2009
Commenting on the news today that university tuition fees will rise by 2.04% next year, but student grants and loans will remain frozen at last year's rates, 51¸£Àû…
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10 June 2009
51¸£Àû today said that it welcomed the contribution to the higher education funding debate from the National Union of Students (NUS) 'A blueprint for an alternative…
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4 June 2009
51¸£Àû today said it was outraged and astonished that universities minister, John Denham, had blamed poor teaching for an increase in the percentage of students not…
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4 June 2009
51¸£Àû today said that the drop in students from the poorest backgrounds studying at UK universities, coupled with an increase in the number of first degree students…
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19 May 2009
The number of complaints lodged by students against their universities increased by 23 per cent in 2008 from the previous year, according to the Office of the Independent…
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7 May 2009
Union says national agreement to prevent jobs crisis needed to protect quality of higher education in the UK. 51¸£Àû today said that concerns about the amount of staff…
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