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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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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REF-based recruitment＊s 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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UK union members back strike action over pay and pensions
About 1 million students set to be affected by walkout
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UK universities avoid more strikes as UCU ballot over pay fails
Union misses 50 per cent threshold for first time since holding sector-wide votes, leaving future of dispute in the balance
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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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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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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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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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Pension plans would cost staff ＆tens of thousands＊, says union
University staff would see ※tens of thousands of pounds a year wiped off their pensions§ if Universities UK plans for change are introduced.
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University lecturers to boycott marking over pensions row
Staff at older universities will begin a marking boycott next week in a row over pension changes
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UCU marking boycott to go ahead after members reject offer
Academics?to refuse to assess students＊ work for an indefinite period, posing threat to this year＊s graduations