The University and College Union has called for a full ballot on changes to higher education鈥檚 largest pension scheme after 96 per cent of voters in its online 鈥渞eferendum鈥 rejected the employers鈥...
Calls have been renewed for a national ballot on proposed changes to the sector鈥檚 largest pension scheme after it emerged that 拢2.9 million in bonuses were paid to investment staff.
Experts predict 'unsustainable' USS fund will close within 10 years. Jack Grove reports
The overwhelming rejection of proposed changes to the USS by scheme members in the UCU is not surprising. The biggest change would be the introduction of a two-tier system, in which a career-average...
A 拢9.8 billion shortfall in the main university pension scheme could be payable if Scotland left the UK following a vote on independence in 2014
It is hard not to chuckle when reading that employers prefer a "narrative" consultation to one where votes for and against pension changes are actually counted ("Pensions powwow set to begin as union...
Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...
Members' benefits may be cut because of the current credit crunch. Rebecca Attwood reports
University and College Union will ballot members on a national walkout over plans to move staff to defined contribution pension scheme
Universities鈥 divestment policies are undermined by the USS鈥 continued investment in oil companies, says Bill Spence聽
Lecturers are to be asked to move towards national strike action over jobs and pensions, amid mounting anger about cuts that could result in "the implosion of the entire sector".The University and...
Increasing the amount of money employers are expected to pay in to the Teachers Pension Scheme will harm the social mobility missions of post-92 institutions, says Greg Walker聽
Academics are being asked by their union to work minimum hours in the first stage of fresh industrial action over pensions - potentially followed by strikes and a boycott of the research excellence...
Discussions have opened to bring all academics into one pension scheme, possibly as early as the end of next year. Universities UK and the Department for Education and Skills are hoping to end one of...
More than 1 million students on 68聽campuses to be affected, as union splits walkouts by dispute