University lecturers to boycott marking over pensions row
Staff at older universities will begin a marking boycott next week in a row over pension changes
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University staff back revised USS reform plan
Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country’s largest private final salary pension scheme
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ߣߣƵ’s most-read articles of 2018
2018 was marked by strikes, pay scandals and the launch of the world’s first blockchain university
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Hefce warning over overseas students and pensions
Slowing growth in international student numbers could have “a material impact on the sector”, while a financial blow from pensions could be looming.
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UUK criticises ‘excessive prudence’ behind pension reforms
The USS is being attacked from all sides over the methodology of its valuation and assumptions, claims UCU
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Letters – 13 September 2018
Guesstimates won’t do for loans, either It was great to read a clear assessment of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“How can the pension crisis be resolved?”, Features, 6 September). But I...
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USS’ largest investments in companies, 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has more than £466 million invested in banking giant HSBC, according to data from the pension scheme’s latest financial report
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Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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Universities ‘face cutbacks’ if USS not reformed, say employers
Employers also release new modelling of pensions proposals
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Valuation vexation
In “USS strike: why I won’t join the pensions strike” (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper, Security and...
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The week in higher education – 20 September 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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UCU accused of betrayal over university pensions
Ten branches demand sector conference as union fails to escalate industrial action in response to pay docking threats in marking boycott
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REF-based recruitment’s effect on final salary pension schemes
Higher pay for top researchers may have caused the end of final salary scheme. Jack Grove writes