Access and tuition fees

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NUT back NUS demo - "Educate, Employ, Empower"

Commenting on the National Union of Students’ day of action, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said:

IET: New £1million fund for Britain’s Brightest Students

13th September 2012, London, UK: The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is today launching new funding of £1 million towards scholarships for students considering a future in engineering.

University admissions fall down to tuition fees and economic downturn, says IET

Commenting on the today’s report by the Independent Commission on Fees which highlights the fall in university admissions, President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Dr Mike Short CBE, said: “Whilst the rise in tuition fees has resulted in a fall in the number of UK university applications, the economic downturn has clearly played its part too. Read more...

IET: Apprenticeships and professional training seen as better option than degree

London, 08th May 2012: With the cost of degrees set to rise this autumn, the route offered by apprenticeships is a worthwhile alternative career path for future engineers, according to a new report released today by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Despite the admission that degrees are still generally held in higher regard, both are valid routes to professional engineering qualifications.

NUT: The fragmentation and privatisation of our education system is a disaster

Commenting after the debate on Motion 40 The Government, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers union said: "We are very obviously not all in this together."

NUT: “Government needs to do far more to reduce child poverty and youth unemployment"

NUT comment on Riots, Communities and Victims Panel Report

IET: Apprenticeships growing but schools must do more

Head teachers, teachers and careers advisors within schools must do more to raise awareness of apprenticeships as a viable option for their students’ futures, according to apprentices at a recent Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) event.

ESRC: Survey paints a portrait of the UK in recession

A complex and fascinating portrait of a society suffering the effects of the deepest recession since the early 1990s and in which young people appear to have been hardest hit is revealed by new findings from the UK’s largest longitudinal household survey Understanding Society. The research published also shows that efforts to get more students from poorer backgrounds to go to university have not been successful and that more needs to be done to get teenagers to live a healthier life in order to assure their future happiness.

ESRC: Middle class benefit the most from post-1992 university expansion

Initiatives by successive governments to provide better access to higher education for young people from less-privileged backgrounds have failed according to Understanding Society, the world’s largest longitudinal study. Findings show just a five per cent increase in degrees among children of routine and manual workers.

NUT: Nick Clegg’s Speech at Liberal Democrats Conference

Commenting on Nick Clegg’s announcement of summer ‘catch-up’ schools in his speech to the Liberal Democrats Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said this:

02/12/2011

Initial tuition fee packages for 2012 are suggesting a minor reduction in the average cost of going to university.

The Office for Fair Access has approved about a fifth of the total universities' proposals before the official deadline.

Fees have been cut in 11 institutions and fee waivers have been increased, but bursaries and scholarships are down.

The shift is being used by both the government and unions opposing the tuition fee policy to justify their points.

More universities than expected initially announced they would charge the maximum £9,000 for annual tuition fees.

Umunna: Tuition fees should be capped at £6k

Access chief: Net cost for students is being cut

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BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition & Conference 2013

Following the great success of the BSIA's Information Destruction Conference and Exhibition in May 2012, we are pleased to annouce that the event is returning again in June 2013. This one-day conference and exhibition is aimed at key decision makers in organisations that carry out the secure destruction of confidential material.