Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy
Experts predict 'unsustainable' USS fund will close within 10 years. Jack Grove reports
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Bumper bonuses for USS staff reignite union anger
Calls have been renewed for a national ballot on proposed changes to the sector’s largest pension scheme after it emerged that £2.9 million in bonuses were paid to investment staff.
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The week in higher education – 1 August 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 3
The overwhelming rejection of proposed changes to the USS by scheme members in the UCU is not surprising. The biggest change would be the introduction of a two-tier system, in which a career-average...
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Pension shortfall fears over Scottish referendum
A £9.8 billion shortfall in the main university pension scheme could be payable if Scotland left the UK following a vote on independence in 2014
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 2
It is hard not to chuckle when reading that employers prefer a "narrative" consultation to one where votes for and against pension changes are actually counted ("Pensions powwow set to begin as union...
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Universities told to plough more money into pensions
Members' benefits may be cut because of the current credit crunch. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 1
Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...
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Strike looms as universities seek end to USS defined benefit deal
University and College Union will ballot members on a national walkout over plans to move staff to defined contribution pension scheme
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UCU to consider strike over jobs and pensions
Lecturers are to be asked to move towards national strike action over jobs and pensions, amid mounting anger about cuts that could result in "the implosion of the entire sector".The University and...
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Why is the UK’s largest pension scheme still investing in fossil fuels?
Universities’ divestment policies are undermined by the USS’ continued investment in oil companies, says Bill SpenceÂ
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Pension scheme contribution hikes are an own goal for government
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 WalkerÂ
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UCU calls for work to contract over pensions
Academics are being asked by their union to work minimum hours in the first stage of fresh industrial action over pensions - potentially followed by strikes and a boycott of the research excellence...
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Talks aim to create single pension
Discussions have opened to bring all academics into one pension scheme, possibly as early as the end of next year. Universities UK and the Department for Education and Skills are hoping to end one of...
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Letter: shrinking pensions could lead to recruitment disaster
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...