Higher education pay survey 2013
With a few exceptions, vice-chancellors’ remuneration did not rise vertiginously in 2011-12 - a good thing politically. But are they still paid too much compared with their peers?
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Divided we fall
The sector needs agreement on pensions and job security if it is to resist savage coalition cuts, argues Sally Hunt
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Warwick's support staff to lose defined benefit scheme
Growing fund deficit leads to reforms criticised for creation of a 'two-tier' system. John Morgan writes
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'Huge strains' on the UK pay spine
Ucea chief tells John Morgan that national salary bargaining will be tested in the new fees order
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Battle to regain respect is vital
As the new union president takes office, he tells John Morgan about his priorities for the future
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UCU decides against industrial action over pay
University lecturers will not join industrial action later this month over a 1 per cent pay offer after members voted against a strike.
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Fighting the good fight
On the many problems that confront our members in these dark times, our record speaks for itself, says the UCU's Sally Hunt
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Firm footing
Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy
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Reopen channels
We do not agree with all the arguments advanced by Darrel Ince, but it is clear that much has changed in recent months ("Pensions are safe if we don't stop working", 30 September). The Universities...
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The week in higher education
• The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities after talks with employers. Sally Hunt, the UCU general secretary, wrote to...
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News in brief
Student experience: A better learning environmentTen universities have won support to help them improve the quality of the student-learning experience. Under the Higher Education Academy's Evidence-...
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The Week in Higher Education
Labour leader Ed Miliband hit back at David Cameron as the two University of Oxford graduates tussled over their days among the dreaming spires. During Prime Minister's Questions on 8 December, Mr...
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System 'shutdown'? UCU ballots over strike
Higher education's biggest union is to ballot for national strikes over jobs, pay and pensions as student activists claim that action could lead to the "shutdown" of the sector.The University and...
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Students’ show of solidarity with national strike action
Occupations are under way at two London universities as students rally in support of lecturers mounting a national strike over pensions, pay and jobs.
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Gold standard reassessed
Employers are worried that the sector's generous pensions are unsustainable, so could this be the end of the road for final-salary schemes? asks Tariq Tahir