UCU general secretary Sally Hunt has written to all MPs inviting them to watch our ‘day in the life’ video, which which was premiered at our annual Congress at the end of May, and t0 join the Make Education Count network.

UCU has produced a short response to issues raised by the 2010 Queen’s Speech: UCU response tp the 2010 Queen’s Speech, May 10 (.pdf) [51kb] UCU response tp the 2010 Queen’s Speech, May 10 (.doc) [162kb]

UCU today demanded that the Conservative Party comes clean on its plans for university funding after David Cameron told the Today Programme that university fees were here to stay. The Tory leader’s comments appear to put him at odds with his universities secretary, David Willetts, who said recently that universities had not yet made the [...]

UCU today welcomed announcements in the budget of extra student places in universities and colleges. However, it said high quality education could not be delivered with fewer staff and bigger class sizes. The union welcomed news of 20,000 additional university places, largely in STEM subjects, but questioned who would be teaching the extra students. The [...]

UCU launched its proposal for a Business Education Tax (BET) in the House of Commons on 3 March. The report is intended to re-open the debate on how we rebalance the contribution to university funding between, as Lord Dearing said, the state, the individual and the employer. UCU was joined by think tank Compass in [...]

A report released today by UCU recommends raising the level of corporation tax in the UK to the G7 countries’ average to raise enough money to abolish all university tuition fees.

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 [...]

UCU’s event in the Long Gallery at Stormont on 20 January, highlighted the continuing stark inequalities in educational attainment and opportunities depending where you live in Northern Ireland. UCU produced 18 constituency profiles, each containing forty statistics regarding further and higher education in Northern Ireland. The profiles – produced as a 24 page booklet – [...]

UCU Scotland will hold a lobby outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday (27 January) as part of UCU’s ‘Defend jobs, defend education’ campaign. The lobby will urge MSPs to oppose cuts particularly in the teacher education budget and will take place from 1pm. UCU members will highlight the problems a proposed funding cut for teacher [...]

UCU will launch its education manifesto on Tuesday 26 January at a lobby event in parliament to set out its key issues in all areas of post-16 education. The manifesto is part of the union’s campaign to get parliamentary candidates to clearly state their position on education to allow the public to make an informed [...]