More strike action over USS pension cuts ‘odds-on’
UCU negotiator says UUK’s latest proposals are unlikely to win support

UCU negotiator says UUK’s latest proposals are unlikely to win support

Union warns that employers ‘have offered very little to dissuade members from voting for another round of industrial action’

Universities UK raises concern about influence of regulator on fund’s valuation, while indicating possible reforms to benefits

Universities UK says increases are unaffordable for employers and risk pricing even more staff out of scheme

Universities call for members to have option to reduce their contributions in return for different benefits

Major governance reform ‘desperately needed’ despite improving financial health of UK’s biggest higher education scheme

Interim vice-chancellor steps down after investigators blame financial crisis on mismanagement, not external pressures

UUK’s proposed hybrid scheme could result in losses of £20,000 a year
We write as members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme who are concerned that negotiations over the future of our pension scheme are based on the projection of a very large deficit based on an...

Radical changes may be on cards after stock market crash and interest rate cuts, say experts

The pension scheme’s healthy reported surplus could allow us to put benefits and contribution rates on a more stable long-term footing, says Carol Young

General secretary hopefuls want further concessions from pension scheme

Proposals reduce anticipated future contributions, but fall short of union members’ ‘no detriment’ demand

Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King and economist John Kay address the USS’ so-called funding crisis and propose a fairer approach to sharing risk between employers, employees and generations

Higher Education Policy Institute director Nick Hillman assesses the history of UK academia’s main pension scheme to ask whether it needs fundamental reform