Views on pensions depend on principles
Re the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“Reforms seen as ‘radical attack’ on pensions”, News, 18?September): in non-academic terms we are getting done over royally.This is...
Re the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“Reforms seen as ‘radical attack’ on pensions”, News, 18?September): in non-academic terms we are getting done over royally.This is...
Economist Andrew Oswald counsels against despair over the Universities Superannuation Scheme reforms
UCU to ballot over 'seriously disruptive action' as employers get their way. John Morgan reports
Union bid to expose hard-line v-cs who refuse to call for talks on pensions, writes John Morgan
Union brands inclusion of two-year bar on walkouts in compromise offer ‘ludicrous’
In a letter to Times Higher Education on 10 March ("Employers, it's Acas or action - your choice"), Sally Hunt, the University and College Union's general secretary, threatens strike action to...
The Universities Superannuation Scheme is in deficit but has healthy assets, says Michael Bourn
Union sets out timetable for ballots over industrial action in relation to the pay and USS pension disputes
UCU plan would maintain defined benefit scheme, but has been branded ‘unaffordable’ by universities
Ninety members of the University and College Union sign a letter to Times Higher Education condemning the UCU’s compromise action on pensions (20 November), and THE gives this considerable prominence...
Perhaps, rather than being so keen to join in radically diminishing staff pensions, Universities UK might like to think more broadly and more long term about the unanticipated consequences of the...
The university strikes are a militant campaign that attacks the very heart of learning as the union propaganda makes clear, says John Marenbon
Senior academics express fears for younger colleagues as strike deadline looms
This strike’s momentum is unprecedented because the proposed pension cuts are a symbol of the UK’s flawed higher education system, says George Letsas
Union?congress calls for resignation of USS chief executive and criticises Cambridge college’s decision to withdraw from scheme