Stop investing in arms trade, university pension fund is told
The Universities Superannuation Scheme鈥檚 stake in former cluster bomb manufacturer Textron is an inappropriate use of savings, campaigners say

The Universities Superannuation Scheme鈥檚 stake in former cluster bomb manufacturer Textron is an inappropriate use of savings, campaigners say

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media

In the wake Sally Hunt鈥檚 resignation and pay ballot turnout, the UK鈥檚 University and College Union needs to come together to discuss its long-term strategy, says Matt Waddup聽
Last week, the Employers Pension Forum published 鈥淧roposed Changes to USS 鈥 Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings鈥. The document contains misinformation and a mistake. We focus on the section 鈥...
We write as representatives of the Left on the Higher Education Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members鈥 pensions. We...

探花视频聽journalists name the academics and administrators who have shaped the debate in the past 12 months
Perhaps, rather than being so keen to join in radically diminishing staff pensions, Universities UK might like to think more broadly and more long term about the unanticipated consequences of the...

Economist Andrew Oswald counsels against despair over the Universities Superannuation Scheme reforms

Plugging a multibillion-pound deficit exacerbated by June鈥檚 poll result may require 鈥榙rastic measures鈥, analysts have warned

UCU warns that academics at older universities could be up to 拢21,000 a year worse off in retirement than those at newer institutions
Re the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (鈥淩eforms seen as 鈥榬adical attack鈥 on pensions鈥, News, 18聽September): in non-academic terms we are getting done over royally.This is...
In the otherwise comprehensive report on the changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (鈥淒ays of reckoning鈥, Features, 12 March), there was no mention of some of the key issues facing the...

The Universities Superannuation Scheme is in deficit but has healthy assets, says Michael Bourn

The UCU is in a unique position of strength and reflection聽鈥 the low turnout for the pay dispute ballot doesn't change that, says Michael Carley聽

Academics complain after 鈥榯echnical difficulties鈥 delay responses and modelling tool