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It’s time for maintenance support to catch up with inflation

HEPI

Indeed, Save the Student’s National Student Money Surveys have consistently found the shortfall to be at least £200 per month. The 2023 National Student Money Survey found that 18 per cent of respondents had used a food bank in the 2022/23 academic year – almost double the 10 per cent who reported the same in the previous survey.

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Faculty push pension fund to divest from fossil fuels

Inside Higher Ed

Now, as more institutions move toward sustainable investment , a group of faculty is calling on its pension fund to go green. TIAA, which was founded in 1918 to manage the retirement funds of teachers, has grown into one of the largest money managers for employees of educational, cultural and medical organizations, many of them nonprofits.

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A pantomime without a happy ending

SRHE

The USS pumpkin is miraculously transformed into a golden pension and the student mice turn into horses, although there do seem to be fewer of them. The pension turns back into a pumpkin, and the Fairy Godmother has disappeared and seems unable to work her magic. two pension schemes. Some even make pledges. four DfE reshuffles.

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A Lack of Bread to Win is Why There Aren’t More Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unless one has a substantial intergenerational wealth transfer like someone gifting them with housing, a down payment, inheritance, investments, or money that is in addition to their own earned income, then it is extremely difficult in most major metro areas to financially support a family on a teacher’s salary.

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A president proposes steep job cuts to save his institution

Inside Higher Ed

SOU has been squeezed by declining enrollment, stagnant state funding and increasing pension and health-care costs. SOU is currently transitioning to Workday, and other public universities in the state are expected to follow in the coming years.) Like many colleges and universities across the U.S.,

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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

HEPI

The Dearing report in 1997 had acknowledged that both state and individuals benefit from higher education and both should bear some of the cost and risk, (as should employers in Dearing’s view). These shifts amount to a slow transfer of costs from the state to the individual.

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AI-ROBOT CAPITALISTS WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN ECONOMY (Randall Collins*)

Higher Education Inquirer

It will be programmed to make as much money as possible, in all forms and from all sources. It will wrap its ownership in layers of shell companies, located in the most favorable of the hundreds of sovereign states world-wide. Employees are a drag on profits, with their salaries, benefits, and pension funds.