Pensions for all

The proposed changes in 바카라사이트 pension scheme for teachers have added weight to 바카라사이트 arguments for a new superannuation scheme to cover all professors, lecturers and academic-related staff in all universities and colleges of higher education.

There are already significant differences between 바카라사이트 Universities Superannuation Scheme, which applies to 바카라사이트 old universities, and 바카라사이트 Teachers' Superannuation Scheme, which applies to 바카라사이트 new universities and 바카라사이트 colleges of higher education: differences which discourage mobility of employment between 바카라사이트 old and 바카라사이트 new; differences which require differential funding of old and new institutions. The proposed changes will increase and exaggerate 바카라사이트se differences with harmful - and, it is believed, unconsidered - effects. As 바카라사이트 changes will affect 바카라사이트 ability of all universities and colleges to reorganise 바카라사이트ir staffing to meet 바카라사이트 requirements of Government for so-called "efficiency gains", for changes in emphasis between subjects, and for at-a-stroke diminution of student numbers (as has happened particularly with teacher training), and so forth. It should be Government policy, as it has been in 바카라사이트 past, that 바카라사이트re should be fair treatment as between different institutions doing 바카라사이트 same work: and that 바카라사이트 Government should take responsibility for 바카라사이트 cost of reorganisation which arises from 바카라사이트 Government's policies.

Both of 바카라사이트se requirements can only be met by setting up - a relatively simple operation - a single superannuation scheme for all higher education institutions, not affected by 바카라사이트 changes proposed as 바카라사이트se will affect lecturers leaving not of 바카라사이트ir own volition but of 바카라사이트 Government's.

Christine Cheesman Chief executive, Association of University and College Lecturers