2010

• Just 1% of Oxbridge students qualified for free school meals
  22 December 2010

  UCU today responded to a report from the Sutton Trust released today that shows that just 1% of Oxbridge students qualified for free school meals.
• Scottish universities hit with 8% funding cut
  21 December 2010

  UCU said that an 8% funding cut in Scottish universities' budgets risked the country's institutions falling behind on the world stage.
• Government university funding plans are a 'Christmas kick in the teeth for the sector'
  20 December 2010

  UCU said today that the government's Christmas message of funding cuts, higher fees, fewer university places, a pay freeze and attacks on staff pensions was a 'Christmas kick in the teeth' for higher education and warned our universities risked falling behind on the world stage.
• UCU welcomes government commitment to fair funding system
  16 December 2010

  UCU Scotland welcomes the government commitment that the state should have prime responsibility to fund Scottish universities. The union was responding to a government consultation looking at how best to fund Scottish higher education.
• Request for a public inquiry into police actions at recent demonstrations
  16 December 2010

  Statement by the president and the general secretary
• Lords vote is huge blow for students and universities
  15 December 2010

  Responding to this evening's vote in the House of Lords, which approved government plans to raise tuition fees, UCU described the decision as huge blow to students and the higher education sector.
• Union warns of risks to standards as Pearson seeks to launch degrees
  14 December 2010

  Government must heed America warnings, warns UCU
• University staff overwhelmingly reject proposed pension scheme changes
  14 December 2010

  Staff at UK universities have overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes from their employers to their pension schemes. In a ballot of over 31,000 people conducted by UCU, 96% said they did not support the employers' proposals to change the USS scheme.
• Ed Miliband backs campaign against abolition of the education maintenance allowance
  13 December 2010

  Labour leader Ed Miliband today backed the campaign against the abolition of the education maintenance allowance.
• Protests against abolition of the education maintenance allowance
  13 December 2010

  Students, staff and trade unions are uniting for a day of action on Monday as part of their campaign to save the education maintenance allowance (EMA).