Mervyn King is wrong to deny USS deficit
The former Bank of England governor’s broadside against academic pension cuts relied on ‘reckless’ and ‘absurd’ assumptions, say John Ralfe and Bernard Casey
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Whistleblowing professor Jane Hutton fired from USS board
Pension fund chair says Warwick statistician had ‘breached a number of her director’s duties’, but insists probe was ‘completely separate’ to investigation of her claims
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Hi-de-Hi finance: USS buys Butlin’s sites for ?300 million
Academics’ pension fund?adds famous holiday camps to growing portfolio of assets as it seeks to shore up finances post-pandemic
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Let’s defend pensions, not defined benefits
Converting the USS into a defined contributions scheme could give younger academics a bigger pension pot, argues David Voas?
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Hundreds in line for windfall from USS
Hundreds of retired academics may get windfalls of up to ?30,000 as the universities pensions scheme corrects an anomaly that went unnoticed for nine years. The Universities Superannuation Scheme is...
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The USS strikes revealed the management hierarchy in higher education
The autonomy, professional discretion and judgement once central to?academic life?is now looked on with deep scepticism by university managers, argues Peter Fleming
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Members should be on the USS's conscience
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...
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Don’t be pound foolish over pensions
UK academics prize the USS pension. Sacrificing a scheme ‘in rude health’ on the basis of overcautious calculations would cause more disaffection
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USS bonuses went up ?4 million as final salary pension scheme axed
Bumper year for fund managers at the Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Does the USS’ deficit recovery plan unfairly penalise younger academics?
Discussions about?how the UK’s largest pension scheme covers its deficit?ought to?consider whether all employers and members should pay the same rate, argues Paul Hamilton
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USS must work for support staff
In the otherwise comprehensive report on the changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“Days of reckoning”, Features, 12 March), there was no mention of some of the key issues facing the...
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USS reforms: income gap widens on redbrick v post-92 pensions
UCU warns that academics at older universities could be up to ?21,000 a year worse off in retirement than those at newer institutions
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USS strike: this is a strike to save higher education
This strike’s momentum is unprecedented because the proposed pension cuts are a symbol of the UK’s flawed higher education system, says George Letsas
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TPS: universities seek respite from ?125 million pensions bill
Coming changes to UK higher education’s second biggest pension scheme will add millions to costs at exactly the wrong time, leaders say
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USS warns of ‘sharp’ increase in costs as virus inflates deficit
UK?higher education’s biggest pension fund says Covid-related uncertainty on financial markets added ?7 billion to shortfall in space of two months