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Leading news and reaction from 51¸£Àû.
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22 March 2007
51¸£Àû has responded to the Green Paper 'Raising Expectations: staying in education and training post-16' presented to the House of Commons today by Education Minister…
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22 March 2007
Funding increases for Scottish universities mean that redundancy threats are now entirely unnecessary, said 51¸£Àû today. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) allocations…
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21 March 2007
Cambridge Regional College (CRC) has announced - once again at very short notice - that it will cease to provide some of its advertised courses, creating confusion…
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21 March 2007
51¸£Àû today said the chancellor needed to demonstrate his commitment to all areas of education. The union welcomed the extra money for the education sector, but warned…
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16 March 2007
Members of the Manchester University branch of 51¸£Àû have slammed university mismanagement and plans for 400 redundancies. At a packed meeting of the lecturers' union,…
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16 March 2007
The UK's newest university, Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, has become embroiled in an age discrimination row after refusing to extend the contract of a 65-year-old…
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15 March 2007
51¸£Àû has written to chancellor Gordon Brown urging him to make a special allocation of funds to the DfES to protect courses in ESOL (English for speakers of other…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed 51¸£Àû.  This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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12 March 2007
51¸£Àû today responded to a review of foreign language teaching, which recommends lessons should be compulsory for the first time in England's primary schools.  51¸£Àû…
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12 March 2007
A £25 million reduction in funding for adult education in London is set to exacerbate the impact of government plans to restrict access to free English language…
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