Activists in Wales launched the Make Education Count network with a cross-party panel discussion on the future priorities of the first minister-elect Carwyn Jones. Taking place just a day after Carwyn was elected to succeed Rhodri Morgan as leader of Welsh Labour and as the next first minister, UCU activists listened to speakers from all [...]

The Make Education Count Westminster Network was launched on 2 December in the House of Commons. On the heels of the ‘Location, Location, Location‘ report and news that the UK has fewer young people in education and training that the majority of other OECD countries, the launch emphasised social mobility and equality of opportunity. Flanked [...]

In Scotland, UCU used Tuesday’s appointment of Michael Russell as Scotland’s new Cabinet Secretary for Education to demand an independent review of higher education. The news came on the eve of UCU’s Holyrood lobby as part of the ‘Make Education Count’ campaign, which took on extra significance as the first education event with the new education [...]

Ahead of the launch in Northern Ireland, UCU released figures that revealed that Northern Ireland is bottom of UK tables that measure employment rates and people with qualifications. Northern Ireland is the region with the highest percentage of people without qualifications. One in five (21.8%) people have no qualifications, which is a long way off the [...]

UCU this week called on politicians of all parties in the United Kingdom to ‘Make Education Count’. The union took the message to Westminster, Cardiff, Stormont and Holyrood and encouraged everyone who had a passion for education to join the campaign and get the UK back on track. UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: ‘We [...]

The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables. In the past 12 years it has been overtaken by countries such as Portugal, New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, Korea, Ireland, Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The news comes on the day the University and College Union (UCU) launches a cross-party group in [...]