Petition · past parliament
Fund the USS defined benefits pension scheme ending the UCU pensions dispute
Rejected
10 signatures
What the petition asks
Recently the University of Southampton's Vice-Chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden admitted he was being forced to implement the current pensions cuts, supporting maintenance grants and retaining the current USS pension scheme. However £9.1bn is needed and will not be met without government funding.
To have teaching staff with secure pensions we ask for a national policy change where the government bears full responsibility for all aspects of UK university funding, instating maintanance grants and ending the pensions dispute by gauranteeing the USS defined benefits scheme by means such as increasing corporation tax and nationalizing key industries, addressing the marketization of higher education we have seen since the 1998 Teaching and Higher Education Act.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 16 Mar 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
10
Status
Rejected
Rejected
22 Mar 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.