Unqualified youngsters four times more likely to be unemployed than students with an A-level UCU today said the current jungle of further education funding streams was a nightmare to negotiate and needed urgent simplification. The union said access to qualifications was vital as figures showed that youngsters with no qualifications were over four times more [...]

Northern Ireland’s MLAs are being asked to give their backing to UCU’s Make Education Count campaign. At an event at Stormont, the UCU – supported by the Ulster Teachers Union (UTU) and the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) – is presenting statistics that detail how Northern Ireland continues to lag behind the rest of the [...]

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 [...]

Report exposes postcode lottery of educational achievement and how gap between haves and have nots has widened Stark differences at regional level and within major cities throughout Britain: read the full report on the UCU website