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College funding outlined

30 March 2012 | No comments

Students will benefit from better job prospects as top-up funding for colleges will protect student places, improve skills and ensure courses match employers’ need.

Nursery Takes a View on Learning

29 March 2012 | No comments

Area Partnership funding will provide young children in Darlaston with access to a whole new world.

University teaching budgets slashed and student places down as government cuts start to bite

29 March 2012 | No comments

English universities will see their teaching budgets slashed by a third this academic year (2012/13) and there will be 11,000 fewer student places available as government cuts to higher education start to bite.

£770,000 for continuation of successful uniform grant scheme

26 March 2012 | No comments

Budget response: corporation tax the wrong cut

22 March 2012 | No comments

UCU said today that additional cuts to corporation tax were not the way to get the UK back on track. The union said corporation tax should rise and the money used to fund educational programmes.

Teaching youngsters that money matters

19 March 2012 | No comments

Youngsters at a Wear Valley School will have lessons on how to manage their money when they grow up.

UCU to take London-wide strike action in pensions row

19 March 2012 | No comments

UCU confirmed that its members in further education colleges and post-92 universities in London will join with members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) for a one day strike on Wednesday 28 March.

New figures reveal universities are spending less on staff

12 March 2012 | No comments

New figures reveal that, as student fees are set to rise to as much as £9,000 a year, the proportion of universities’ expenditure spent on staff has fallen again.

UCU response to government student finance package for 2013

8 March 2012 | No comments

UCU has questioned the wisdom of the government sticking rigidly to controversial student finance packages for the 2013 academic year, before the impact of the new £9,000-a-year fee regime has been evaluated.

£10,000 for every Band 4 and 5 school announced by Minister

8 March 2012 | No comments

£50 million summer school fund launched to help disadvantaged children into secondary school

1 March 2012 | No comments

A £50 million summer schools fund to help the most disadvantaged pupils opens today.

Schools Forum Consultation

27 February 2012 | No comments

The purpose of the Schools Forum is to represent school’s views on matters relating to the total schools budget and plays a vital role in discussions about the school funding formula, school contracts and other financial issues.

Consultation on student support

24 February 2012 | No comments

The National Union of Students Scotland will join discussions on how distribution of the Scottish Government’s significant £95.5 million support package for college students might be improved, First Minister Alex Salmond announced today.

Preschool united over dividers

23 February 2012 | No comments

A preschool in Watford is to modernise its facilities thanks to funding from a local county councillor.

UCU to ballot members over further strikes in pensions row

13 February 2012 | No comments

Members of UCU in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) will be asked if they are prepared to take further strike action in the continuing row over government changes to their pensions.

Government reveals higher learning tax for lowest paid students

10 February 2012 | No comments

Lowest earning students will pay back more than double what they borrow under new college fee regime.

Budget will see £62 million investment in schools

10 February 2012 | No comments

Perth & Kinross Council has agreed a budget which invests £62 million in school building projects over the next five years and sees a continued freeze on council tax.

Poorest students hit hardest by Government cuts to college grants, says report

7 February 2012 | No comments

Responding to a report today from the children’s charity Barnardo’s, which criticises the Government’s ‘disastrous’ decision to slash funding for the poorest college students, UCU said the government needed to act now to prevent more young people joining the dole queue.