Employers Pensions Forum seeks more public cash
Group behind USS overhaul applies for further £100,000 award. John Morgan 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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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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The week in higher education – 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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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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The week in higher education – 18 January 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Warning sounded on final-salary pensions
A career-average deal is one option under review by USS to cut costs. John Morgan reports
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Laurie Taylor – 4 January 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Call to end ‘postcode lottery’ of tuition fee cash for pensions black hole
UEL vice-chancellor says it is wrong that students’ money is used to prop up local government schemes
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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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Unions call for national ballot on USS changes
Employers and trade unions are again at odds over higher education's biggest pension scheme, this time disagreeing about a consultation with members on major changes.The consultation, a statutory...