Unions

Colleagues say Royal Holloway’s Jeff Frank has been left in limbo for months during investigation into ‘flimsy’ misconduct charges

Union members’ walkout over budget cuts will coincide with the arrival of new students

Universities Superannuation Scheme is in ‘rude health’, says Mervyn King

A failure to treat staff fairly and consistently impedes academic standards and hurts students, says Sheikh Nahid Neazy

Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King and economist John Kay address the USS’ so-called funding crisis and propose a fairer approach to sharing risk between employers, employees and generations

Union complains that early career academics have been told they must publish at least one 3* paper every 18 months ahead of 2021 assessment

Experts predict ripple effect from ruling against Canadian university

Female academics should follow the lead of women in other sectors and pursue mass claims against their universities, says a Birkbeck scholar

Union members at Fort Hare are pushing for bigger pay increases

Legislation proposed by new provincial government would terminate longest-running industrial dispute at an anglophone university in Canada

Home secretary offers clarity in wake of UK university pensions walkout

Ballot follows walkouts over pensions earlier this year

President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities

How strong a voice should academics and students have in university governance? Tom Cutterham contrasts autocratic and democratic patterns in UK and European institutions

Universities across North America told they must resolve issues around job insecurity as one institution faces 14th week of industrial action

Staff refuse to allow delegates to consider motion calling for general secretary’s resignation

University and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt faces demands to stand down over her handling of the pensions strike

Seventy-seven day walkout has failed to address key issues of dispute over pay and benefits

The new UK home secretary must reinstate workers’ right to participate in industrial action regardless of national origin, says Shreya Atrey

Investigation discovers that three-quarters of advertised posts are filled by an internal candidate

Ivy League university wins praise for formally recognising trade union created by graduate students who teach

Union members call for removal of threat of hundreds of redundancies and ask for consultation on possible industrial action

Converting the USS into a defined contributions scheme could give younger academics a bigger pension pot, argues David Voas 

Qualified actuary and academic Nick Foster says the case for university pension reform cannot be ignored despite a brilliant anti-cuts PR campaign

This strike’s momentum is unprecedented because the proposed pension cuts are a symbol of the UK’s flawed higher education system, says George Letsas

Sport is one of the ways that universities are helping to transform the lives of young people from socially disadvantaged communities, says Geoff Thompson

Revised deal would set up expert panel to advise on ‘future joint approach’, and aim to protect defined benefits

More than 600 academics record resignation in online document

Union ‘unconvinced’ making redundancies will help institution achieve aim of improving research and teaching

Casualisation and treating academics like feckless children who can’t be trusted have also taken their toll, says Sarah Colvin

Industrial action at UK universities a ‘seminal moment’, say academics

Protests by West Ham fans have striking similarities with the unrest sparked among academics by proposed pension cuts, says Richard Watermeyer

Copyright policy would bar staff at University of Nottingham from objecting to edited versions of their own lectures, which could be used during a strike

Bill Galvin, chief executive of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, tackles some of the ‘misunderstandings’ about the fund’s approach to its valuation

Universities UK to appoint panel to explore methodology and assumptions behind pension scheme’s £6.1 billion deficit

Perth’s Murdoch University backs away from radical move to reboot staff conditions

UCU appeal is latest escalation of row over future of Universities Superannuation Scheme

The Pensions Regulator, not universities, is the driving force behind proposed cuts due to its nonsensical approach to discount rates, argue David Bailey and John Clancy

Universities UK describes decision as ‘hugely disappointing’

Agreement raises hopes that strike action could be suspended later this week

Academic sleuths have used investigative skills and Twitter to tell the real story behind proposed pension cuts, says Sherrill Stroschein

Staff at 65 UK higher education institutions are entering their fourth week of strike action

Further walkouts would target exam period between April and June

Pension cuts have been presented as a matter-of-fact and inevitable response to an enormous deficit, but this position has started to unravel, says Jan Machielsen

USS dispute has also revealed deep divides among vice-chancellors on way forward for the sector, experts say

Universities need to confront, rather than ignore, uncomfortable questions about the worth of higher education to be in with a fighting chance

Vice-chancellor convenes special council meeting after academics vote overwhelmingly to change institution’s stance

UCU estimates that most UK higher education institutions use hourly paid teachers for between 15 and 40 per cent of their teaching, with an average of 27 per cent

Negotiations between UUK and UCU due to resume on 6 March

Uncertainty over the future of 18 per cent contributions is hampering negotiations, argue Jon Forster, Graham Niblo and James Vickers

The university strikes are a militant campaign that attacks the very heart of learning as the union propaganda makes clear, says John Marenbon

Too many partisan board members are causing the university pensions dispute to drag on, says Adrian Bell

Talks at mediation service Acas planned as strike action at UK universities enters fifth day

Don’t blame university support staff for not joining the strike over pensions – it is because too often they are left out of the conversation, says Fiona Whelan

Pensions industry must use academia’s knowledge to create more imaginative solutions to global pensions crisis, argues Lionel Martellini

Warwick's vice-chancellor Stuart Croft explains how radical government action might help to avert the pensions strike affecting half of all UK universities

Universities UK concedes that it might ‘have not considered every possible angle’, as strike action continues

Staff at 65 universities walk out over changes to Universities Superannuation Scheme

Academics do not want to damage students' education but strike action is the only option left to protect pensions, says Sam Marsh

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