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鈥檚 largest private final salary pension scheme
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The week in higher education 鈥 20 September 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Valuation vexation
In 鈥淯SS strike: why I聽won鈥檛 join the pensions strike鈥 (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper,聽Security and...
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Hefce warning over overseas students and pensions
Slowing growth in international student numbers could have 鈥渁 material impact on the sector鈥, while a financial blow from pensions could be looming.
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UUK criticises 鈥榚xcessive prudence鈥 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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UK university staff to vote on strike action in pay dispute
Ballot follows walkouts over pensions earlier this year
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Universities 鈥榝ace cutbacks鈥 if USS not reformed, say employers
Employers also release new modelling of pensions proposals
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USS鈥 largest investments in companies, 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has more than 拢466聽million invested in banking giant HSBC, according to data from the pension scheme鈥檚 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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UCU congress: how not to turn victory into defeat
The University and College Union mustn鈥檛聽let infighting tarnish its聽success in the聽USS dispute and a boom in membership, says Adam Ozanne聽
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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
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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鈥檚 effect on final salary pension schemes
Higher pay for top researchers may have caused the end of final salary scheme. Jack Grove writes