Fresh strike ballots at 24 universities in pay and pensions row
Strikes threaten to spill into the new year, as little progress made in?dispute
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Pension makes sense
Readers of your piece on pensions in higher and further education ("Avoiding future shock", THES, September 11) may be wondering why the cost of the Universities Superannuation Scheme is greater to...
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UCU challengers: the candidates trying to unseat Jo Grady
Union members?voting on who should be next general secretary, with incumbent under pressure from all sides?
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Is your pension funding this?
Chris Bunting looks at ethical issues arising from institutional investments If you see a chain smoker coughing their lungs out on the street, rub your hands in glee. If you read a newspaper report...
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Is your pension funding this?
Chris Bunting looks at ethical issues arising from institutional investments If you see a chain smoker coughing their lungs out on the street, rub your hands in glee. If you read a newspaper report...
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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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Pension cost rise looming for universities
University pension costs rose slightly last year, but may increase significantly in 2016 as major reforms take effect, according to pension experts.
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall (THES, August 21) has some interesting ideas. The Association of University Teachers and the corporate trustee both agree with him in attaching importance to improvement of the...
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Pension crisis on cards
University non-teaching staff are more likely to become embroiled in the pensions crisis besetting the private sector than their academic colleagues, according to credit ratings agency Standard &...
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The pension millionaire game
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
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Struggle to balance the pension books
"I bet when MPs debated top-up fees last winter they never imagined that so much would be going on staff pension funds," said Richard Allanach, finance director of the University of East London....
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
Managers of the Univer-sities Superannuation Scheme were right to err on the side of caution in estimating a decade or two ago how well investments would fare to pay staff pensions ("Richer than you...
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Letter: Pensions calculator
The Association of University Teachers thinks that changing the Universities Superannuation Scheme could assist in recruiting and keeping lecturers, principally by substituting 1/60th for 1/80th of...
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Pension penalty clause
In January 1994 I took up a new lecturing appointment with an "old" university and applied to join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Previously I was employed by a "new" university (formerly...
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Greater efficiency would help cover pensions liabilities
Universities should emulate the private sector in a positive way by eliminating costly duplication, says a worker in professional services