Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:16:00 GMT
The NASUWT comments on Gordon Brown’s call for a global education fund.
Category: news releases
Government funding plans ‘a disaster’ for universities
Responding to the release of the higher education funding letter today, UCU said that the government's funding plans were an untried experiment that would be disastrous for the UK's academic reputation.
Government should listen to President Obama on university funding plans
UCU today said the government should listen to President Obama's 'timely reminder' about the importance of funding education and university research.
Cable Fails to Curb High Pay
Vince Cable clearly identifies that the ballooning of executive pay “is a clear market failure†and has produced mouse to solve the problem says union
Remploy Strike 26th January
The strike is to oppose the introduction of employees on lower terms and conditions of employment
Delay to pension auto-enrolment is deeply disappointing
Commenting on the new timetable for the staging of auto-enrolment, announced today (Wednesday) in a written ministerial statement, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
ANALYSIS: CAN PILOT TRAINING KEEP PACE WITH DEMAND?
ANALYSIS: Can pilot training keep pace with demand?
ANALYSIS: CAN PILOT TRAINING KEEP PACE WITH DEMAND?
ANALYSIS: Can pilot training keep pace with demand?
Chancellor’s economic strategy is going horribly wrong
Commenting on the first estimate of GDP growth published today (Wednesday) for the last quarter of 2011, which showed the economy shrunk by 0.2 percentage points, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
GDP per person set to decline in 2012
GDP per person is likely to fall in 2012 and will not return to pre-recession levels until 2016, the TUC says today (Wednesday) ahead of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) first estimate of economic growth in the last quarter of 2011.