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10 April 2013
The gap between boys and girls going to university from the poorest backgrounds widened in the first year of the new tuition fees regime, according to new analysis…
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12 March 2013
The University of Salford has today been accused of riding roughshod over its own guidelines as it detailed plans to severely reduce redundancy terms for staff…
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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
Questions about academic freedom at the University of Sussex continue to be asked as a bitter row about outsourcing jobs and services shows little sign of abating.…
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31 January 2013
The chairs of five influential committees of cross-party MPs and peers* will today write to the prime minister to urge him to remove international students from…
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30 January 2013
Today's figures for university entry this autumn do not demonstrate that applications are back on track, warned 51¸£Àû. The union said that applications should have…
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25 January 2013
Anyone aged 24 and above who wants to do high level apprenticeship, such as in engineering, will have to pay thousands of pounds to do the work-based course if…
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23 January 2013
The education secretary Michael Gove's plans to reform A and AS levels are another attempt to entrench elitism in education, said 51¸£Àû today. The union was responding…
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23 January 2013
Young people need access to better careers guidance says a report from the Education Committee of MPs released today. The report also argues that careers guidance…
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10 January 2013
51¸£Àû said today that plans to shut seven public prisons and reduce the capacity for prisoners would do nothing to enhance the likelihood of fewer prisoners reoffending.…
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