Final-salary pension in peril
Universities UK predicts stark choices in future retirement provision for academics. Melanie Newman reports. Academics may have to lose their final-salary pension schemes, according to a Universities...
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UCU chief urges v-cs to speak out to avert UK pensions strike
Jo Grady says 鈥榓 lot of鈥 university leaders want to strike a deal over contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Pension deal aims to avert staff loss
Some older academics in the TPS will now be able to work and claim a pension, says Chloe Stothart A key reform of one of the higher education sector's main pension schemes could help prevent an early...
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Union calls 14-day strike in UK pay and pensions dispute
Walkouts to聽escalate over February and March
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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
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
It is worth examining what befell many who retired with benefits from the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities. This was a defined-contribution scheme that was the forerunner of the USS....
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Top-up pensions contributions
Perhaps it is time for a radical rethink of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (THES, April 18, 21, 28), one that embraces both the concerns of USS chief executive David Chynoweth about stability...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
The USS offers a low-cost, totally risk-free, index-linked income in retirement - plus additional death in service benefits, dependants' pensions and ill-health provision. It can offer these benefits...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
As an Association of University Teachers-appointed director of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I have followed with interest recent exchanges in The THES on pensions. Sarah Oates (Letters,...
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UK union members back strike action over pay and pensions
About 1 million students set to be affected by walkout
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Lecturers' pension proposal could encourage new blood
Proposed improvements to the lecturers' pension scheme could stave off the looming recruitment and retention crisis, the Association of University Teachers believes. Trustees of the Universities...
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Top-up pensions contributions
Andrew Oswald ("Richer than you thought", THES, April 14; "The pension millionaire game", April 28) has shown how niggardly our pension providers can be. What is especially galling to those of us who...
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What will the end of final-salary pensions mean for academics?
As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms
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What next for UCU and Jo Grady after strike ballot failure?
With one dispute won but another floundering, some believe lack of strikes could actually benefit UK鈥檚 main academic union聽in latest talks with employers, but others are preparing to try to unseat...
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Pension plans would cost staff 鈥榯ens of thousands鈥, says union
University staff would see 鈥渢ens of thousands of pounds a year wiped off their pensions鈥 if Universities UK plans for change are introduced.