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• 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.

• Government shelves higher education privatisation plans UCU today welcomed reports that American-style government plans to allow private for-profit companies access to publicly-subsidised student loans have been shelved.

• Latest on the TPS dispute On Friday 20 January, the national executive committee (NEC) of UCU voted to reject the government's reforms of the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS).

• New figures reveal fall in the number of university teachers as student numbers increase UCU today warned that class sizes in higher education could rise after new figures revealed that the number of staff teaching in the sector had fallen as student numbers increased.

• Imminent funding plans for universities must do more to help lost generation of students UCU said today that the imminent grant letter from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), which details how much funding will be available for university teaching budgets, must provide an urgent boost for the one million young people out of work.

• Adult nurse training to be cut by over 20% in London UCU today warned that patient care in London could be put at risk after NHS London announced that it would be reducing the number of adult nurse training places at universities in the capital by over 20% from next autumn.