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While the result of the University and College Union pensions ballot was awaited, the Office for Students published on its website 鈥淕uidance for students affected by recent industrial action in...
While the result of the University and College Union pensions ballot was awaited, the Office for Students published on its website 鈥淕uidance for students affected by recent industrial action in...

University and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt faces demands to stand down over her handling of the pensions strike
There is no 鈥渇inancial shortfall鈥 in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (鈥淪trike looms as universities seek end to USS defined benefit deal鈥, News, 17 November). What we have is a ludicrous...

Employers propose scrapping final salary scheme to cut USS deficit

Union members have overwhelmingly backed plans for industrial action over changes to pensions

The mercury has fallen, but an alarming number of issues threaten to ignite and, potentially, give the UK sector some painful burns

University staff would see 鈥渢ens of thousands of pounds a year wiped off their pensions鈥 if Universities UK plans for change are introduced.
I was dismayed to read John Marenbon鈥檚 article, 鈥淯SS strike: academics are wrong to walk out鈥 (Opinion, 2 March). When you take away the hysteria (鈥渢rade union militancy鈥), the ad hominem slurs (鈥...
Adam Ozanne recently wrote an opinion article titled 鈥淯CU congress: how not to turn victory into defeat鈥 (17 June,聽www.timeshighereducation.com). Although we feel strongly that the issues he raised...

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
The article 鈥淯K university pension scheme deficit widens to 拢12.6 billion鈥 is misleading. The Universities Superannuation Scheme is not in deficit in the ordinary meaning of the word. It is very cash...
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes

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