IAN NASH says Coalition policy is destroying community learning
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Policy
First they came for the libraries . . .
After IfL, what next for professional development?
BARRY LOVEJOY asks, what next for the professional agenda?
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University Governance: will Scotland lead the way?
UCU Scotland is campaigning for the full implementation of the recommendations from a report on governance which will increase involvement of staff and students.
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Freedom to choose?
STEPHEN COURT provides an analysis of course closures
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Unannounced observations
ANDREW MOURANT argues a fight against unannounced lesson observations will be UCU’s next big battle
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A real education revolution
'Education, education, education . . .’ PROFESSOR KEN SPOURS on why education must not be a political football
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THE BIG INTERVIEW: Sir Alan Langlands
Is there a future for HEFCE? Interview with funding chief SIR ALAN LANGLANDS
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In defence of public libraries
IAN SEARLE argues the mass closure of public libraries in some areas of Britain will damage most sorts of learning – but the worst hit will be the sort of learning that people do because they want to do it, not because they need it for their career.
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The assault on universities: a manifesto for resistance
DES FREEDMAN explains why group of individuals have produced a manifesto for higher education, with demands placed both on government and universities themselves
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The selfish giant generation?
MICHAEL WHITE who was born in 1945 ‘near the front of what turned out to be a big queue’ for access to education wonders how we got here.
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Fees are the answer. Now, what was the question?
JOHN RENTOUL, Chief Political Correspondent for the Independent on Sunday, argues that, despite what the UCU might think, tuition fees are here to stay.
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Everyone benefits from education. So why make students pay?
Self-confessed ‘militant chartered accountant’ RICHARD MURPHY argues that it is big business who should pay university and college fees, not students.
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The Executive Suite tendency
PRIYAMVADA GOPAL says the new cry of vocational qualifications for the poor and university for the rich is tantamount to an education class war
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Coalition cuts take us back to the future
Professor Keith Ewing argues that UCU members can learn lessons from the cuts inflicted on education in the ‘eighties.
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Equality really is better for everyone
WILL HORWITZ of the Spirit Level Foundation argues that equality, not social mobility, should be central to public policy.
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