Expert panel could be ‘game changer’ in UK pensions dispute
Analysts are optimistic that the expert panel convened to reassess the USSÂ deficit could deliver significant change, although others are less convinced
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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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Ex-Bank of England chief attacks ‘unfair’ UK pension reforms
Universities Superannuation Scheme is in ‘rude health’, says Mervyn King
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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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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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Strikes suspended as union members vote to end pensions dispute
UCU members accept deal with vice-chancellors by two-to-one margin
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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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‘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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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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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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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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We are unionist but we won’t be striking this time
Striking again would rob students of vital lecture time and damage the progress we’ve made through bargaining, says one anonymous UCU member
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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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USS guesswork
We write as members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme who are concerned that negotiations over the future of our pension scheme are based on the projection of a very large deficit based on an...