Andrew wrote:
Plus automatic membership of a nice juicy final salary pension
scheme (that is probably massively in deficit) ??

If you are referring to USS, it hasn't been final salary for
a while - instead it's now "career average", which is fairer
and weeds out the anomalies (such as just before retirement
salary jumps, and perhaps even late career drops in salary
point).

There do seem to be some funding issues but they are not
being ignored; and debate mostly seems to involve USS,
universities, and the unions arguing how much needs to be
paid in, and by whom.

#Paul