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21 December 2010
51¸£Àû said that an 8% funding cut in Scottish universities' budgets risked the country's institutions falling behind on the world stage. The Scottish Funding Council…
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20 December 2010
51¸£Àû said today that the government's Christmas message of funding cuts, higher fees, fewer university places, a pay freeze and attacks on staff pensions was a 'Christmas…
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16 December 2010
51¸£Àû Scotland welcomes the government commitment that the state should have prime responsibility to fund Scottish universities. The union was responding to a government…
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16 December 2010
Statement by the president and the general secretary Further to events in London surrounding the anti-fees demonstration on Thursday 9 December we have written…
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15 December 2010
Responding to this evening's vote in the House of Lords, which approved government plans to raise tuition fees, 51¸£Àû described the decision as huge blow to students…
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14 December 2010
Government must heed America warnings, warns 51¸£Àû 51¸£Àû said today that encouraging the growth of for-profit companies in higher education risked damaging the UK's…
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14 December 2010
Staff at UK universities have overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes from their employers to their pension schemes. In a ballot of over 31,000 people conducted…
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13 December 2010
Labour leader Ed Miliband today backed the campaign against the abolition of the education maintenance allowance. In an interview with the Save EMA campaign, the…
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13 December 2010
Students, staff and trade unions are uniting for a day of action on Monday as part of their campaign to save the education maintenance allowance (EMA). Colleges…
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10 December 2010
The coalition government have won a vote but lost the argument over tuition fees. Once again the democratic deficit in British society has been revealed as being…
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