Update, 2019-01-07: I am pleased to say that the online media article that I complained about in Sec 1 below has now been amended by its author(s), to correct the false attributions.  I am grateful to Chris Parr for helping to sort this out. In my post a few ...

A journalist asked me to look at a recent report, Analysis of degree classifications over time: Changes in graduate attainment.  The report was published by the UK government’s Office for Students (OfS) on 19 December 2018, along with a headline-grabbing press release: The report uses a statistical method — the widely used ...

This will be my last post for a while (I promise!).  After today I’ll be taking a rest from all this, until at least the start of April.  Hopefully all this USS stuff will be resolved by then, though! In yesterday’s post I showed a graph, followed by ...

In response to my previous post, “Latest USS proposal: Who would lose most?“, someone asked me about doing the same calculation for the USS JNC-supported proposals from January.  For a summary of those January proposals and my comments about their fairness, please see my earlier post “USS pension scheme and ...

Yesterday the UUK/UCU negotiations at ACAS concluded with an agreement document. In this post I’ll look at the numbers in those proposed interim changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme, to work out how much money would effectively be lost by USS members at each salary level. This is ...

It has been a while since I posted anything here, but I can’t resist this one. Let me just give three numbers.  The first two are: 314, the number of seats predicted for the largest party (Conservatives) in the UK House of Commons, at 10pm in Thursday (i.e., before ...