UCU responds to spending review

Responding to today's spending review, UCU general secretary Jo Grady said:

'While additional science and technology research funding is welcome, it is long overdue and will do little to avert the wider crisis in our universities.

'This spending review is yet another missed opportunity to invest in further education and meet the country's skills needs after years of funding cuts, job losses and falling pay. We need more investment so the sector can recruit and retain the staff needed to deliver on the government's ambitions.

'Labour must invest properly in the public sector if it is to reap the rewards of renewal. Otherwise, it risks letting Reform's politics of division in through the backdoor.'