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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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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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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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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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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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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Universities ‘face cutbacks’ if USS not reformed, say employers
Employers also release new modelling of pensions proposals
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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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UK university staff to vote on strike action in pay dispute
Ballot follows walkouts over pensions earlier this year
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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
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UCU congress: how not to turn victory into defeat
The University and College Union mustn’t let infighting tarnish its success in the USS dispute and a boom in membership, says Adam Ozanne
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Academics feel besieged and aggrieved
Academics see the OfS, like the changes in USS pensions, as another attack on them and the cherished compensations of their profession