USSstrike: 7 Articles

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

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Alternative accounts: Archiving the 2018 UK university strikes

A JCE online curation of the UK university 2018 industrial action. For illustration purposes, we draw inspiration from 

Unrolling the consultants and challenging the "DB good, DC bad" viewpoint

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Unrolling who is behind the drive to end the Defined-Benefit pension scheme?

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Unrolling the 2014 pension review

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The means and ends of higher education

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Deficit, what deficit? The politics of financial fact

Pensions are under threat. You will be familiar with the headline numbers – pensions slashed by over half, to a level where the very survival of the university sector seems in jeopardy. I have done the numbers, like everyone else, and they make grim reading. But how did this whole mess come about? At root, it’s a struggle over risk and who should carry it.