UK academics have snapped – and not just over pensions
Casualisation and treating academics like feckless children who can’t be trusted have also taken their toll, says Sarah Colvin
Casualisation and treating academics like feckless children who can’t be trusted have also taken their toll, says Sarah Colvin
Extra contributions are likely to cost many university staff more than £1,000 a year, analysis shows
Guy Hughes describes the staff campaign to force the Universities Superannuation Scheme to rethink where it invests its money The Universities Superannuation Scheme announced last week that it will...
Staff assembly backs motion calling on management to block employers’ plan for USS
Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country’s largest private final salary pension scheme
The USS is being attacked from all sides over the methodology of its valuation and assumptions, claims UCU
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost £30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of £6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost £30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of £6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
Huge deficits emerge as universities start to publish 2018-19 accounts – but impact will be reversed next year
I could not help but be drawn to the contribution from the chair of the Employers Pension Forum last week (“A novel contribution”, Opinion, 24 July). After all, I had met Anton Muscatelli three-...
Employers also release new modelling of pensions proposals
Institutions told that UCU members are prepared to ‘dig in’ on pensions reform ahead of November marking boycott at 69 campuses
Analysts are optimistic that the expert panel convened to reassess the USS deficit could deliver significant change, although others are less convinced
Employers propose scrapping final salary scheme to cut USS deficit
Growing discontent among University and College Union members about leaders’ handling of negotiations