Union proposes increase in contributions to plug USS deficit
UCU plan would maintain defined benefit scheme, but has been branded ‘unaffordable’ by universities
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Hundreds of jobs at risk from fresh UK pensions cost hike
Increase in contributions to Teachers’ Pension Scheme will cost post-92 universities about £140 million annually, Ucea says
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Pensions strike ‘poisons relations’ on UK campuses
USS dispute has also revealed deep divides among vice-chancellors on way forward for the sector, experts say
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Change attitudes to avoid pensions bust-up
Sally Hunt explains why employers must change their ‘counterproductive’ attitudes towards risk to avoid further cuts to academic pensions
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‘No one knows for sure’: deficit at heart of USS dispute debated
Four experts discuss the estimated shortfall that led to strike action at UK universities
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Under-pressure UCU leader urges members to accept pensions deal
Several University and College Union branches urge rejection of offer to set up expert panel
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USS bonanza fails to reward its pensioners
Bonuses paid to investment staff working within the sector's main pension scheme almost doubled as it closed its final salary scheme to new members.
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UCU announces eight days of strikes, starting late November
Staff will walk out at 60 universities starting from 25 November
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USS deficit review ‘must enjoy confidence of sector or be doomed’
Universities UK to appoint panel to explore methodology and assumptions behind pension scheme’s £6.1 billion deficit
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Union tables new proposals in bid to resolve pensions dispute
Talks at mediation service Acas planned as strike action at UK universities enters fifth day
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University pension warning as USS deficit grows
Staff contributions will need to increase by a third to clear a multi-billion pound deficit in the sector’s main pension fund, a new analysis says.
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If the UCU strike achieves its aims, we’ll be worse off
The costs of the UCU’s pay and pensions demands make the fights for lighter workloads, greater gender and ethnic pay equality, and less workforce casualisation impossible, says Alexander Douglas
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Universities split over pay deductions for action short of strike
Ucea chair’s institution among those to decide against withholding salaries
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The USS strikes revealed the management hierarchy in higher education
The autonomy, professional discretion and judgement once central to academic life is now looked on with deep scepticism by university managers, argues Peter Fleming
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Union threatens 14 more days of strike action in pensions dispute
Further walkouts would target exam period between April and June