UCU Left defiant on pension deal
Letter urges university staff to reject new pensions offer and renew strike action, despite warnings that success is unlikely
Letter urges university staff to reject new pensions offer and renew strike action, despite warnings that success is unlikely
Alastair McDougall (THES, August 21) has some interesting ideas. The Association of University Teachers and the corporate trustee both agree with him in attaching importance to improvement of the...
Four experts discuss the estimated shortfall that led to strike action at UK universities
Mechanisms to determine university leaders’ salaries are opaque and unreliable. We need more meaningful metrics, says Adrian Furnham
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
"I bet when MPs debated top-up fees last winter they never imagined that so much would be going on staff pension funds," said Richard Allanach, finance director of the University of East London....
Increasing the amount of money employers are expected to pay in to the Teachers Pension Scheme will harm the social mobility missions of post-92 institutions, says Greg Walker
We are dismayed to see that the University and College Union has proposed a career revalued benefits scheme for pensions that, if accepted, would considerably worsen our terms and conditions of...
The Association of University Teachers thinks that changing the Universities Superannuation Scheme could assist in recruiting and keeping lecturers, principally by substituting 1/60th for 1/80th of...
Managers of the Univer-sities Superannuation Scheme were right to err on the side of caution in estimating a decade or two ago how well investments would fare to pay staff pensions ("Richer than you...
Universities UK to appoint panel to explore methodology and assumptions behind pension scheme’s £6.1 billion deficit
In January 1994 I took up a new lecturing appointment with an "old" university and applied to join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Previously I was employed by a "new" university (formerly...
Slowing growth in international student numbers could have “a material impact on the sector”, while a financial blow from pensions could be looming.
The "high-risk" investment strategy pursued by the Universities Superannuation Scheme has been a bigger problem for pensions than rising life expectancy, an academic has claimed.
University and College Union will ballot members on a national walkout over plans to move staff to defined contribution pension scheme