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• Pension schemes must avoid race to the bottom says UCU UCU today (Thursday) said that sweeping changes to pension schemes needed the backing of a scheme's members if they were to have any legitimacy.

• Pension benefit cuts without members' agreement have no legitimacy says UCU UCU today (Thursday) said changes to pension schemes needed proper consultation with fund members if they were to have any legitimacy.

• UCU response to Sutton Trust report's £15,000-a-year fees UCU today (Monday) said that if the forthcoming review into student funding, led by Lord Browne, simply advocated ways of squeezing more money out of students then it would have 'spectacularly failed its remit.'

• Student funding review must look beyond penalising students, says UCU If the forthcoming student funding review, led by Lord Browne, simply advocates ways of squeezing more money out of students then it will have 'spectacularly failed its remit' says UCU.

• England set to be world's most expensive country for university education Analysis by UCU of fees charged by publicly-funded universities around the world reveals that increasing fees to £5,000-a-year would be enough to give England the unenviable tag of supplier of the world's most expensive degrees.

• UCU delivers submission to government spending review UCU has today (Tuesday) delivered its submission to the Government's 2010 spending review and calls for a fundamental rethink of plans to cut education funding.

• University scare stories add nothing to funding debate, says UCU UCU today (Monday) said the UK risked undermining its position as a global leader in higher education if it pushed ahead with huge increases in university fees and allowed universities to go to the wall.

• UCU calls for national bursary system as cash not getting through to poorest students UCU today (Thursday) called for a national student bursary scheme. The union was responding to a report from the Office For Fair Access (OFFA) that shows the biggest student financial aid packages, generally offered by the most selective universities, have failed to attract significantly more young people from low-income backgrounds.