The University of Oxford is facing renewed calls to scrap “ageist” rules that force professors to retire at 68 despite dropping the policy for more junior academics.
Plans to remove those who are not professors or associate professors from the remit of the Employer Justified Retirement Age (EJRA) were approved this week after no objections were raised to proposed reforms that will exempt most Oxford staff from the retirement rules.
The decision, which was announced in the Oxford Gazette on 13 October, follows the recommendation of an internal review that found there was “no evidence” that forced retirement was contributing to the aims of the policy – improving diversity, refreshing the workforce and improving “intergenerational fairness”.
