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Tories' education privatisation slammed by lecturers' union UCU

THE Tories’ “American dream” of education privatisation has descended into an English nightmare, lecturers’ union UCU leader Sally Hunt will tell academics today.

Ms Hunt will accuse Universities Minister David Willetts of being blinded to the failure of his policies by ideology in her keynote speech to members in Manchester. 

She will explain how “poor attendance, huge debts and low standards” are the result of the free-for-all that the US-inspired minister is striving for. 

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