1) UniForum In a previous Newsflash, 5th July, we highlighted a number of issues and concerns which Bristol UCU had with the current UniForum benchmarking programme. This reflected a national UCU briefing: http://bristolucu.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/files/2017/07/UCUBANHE9-Uniforum-UCU-Briefing.pdf Bristol UCU would also like to emphasise the involvement of the campus trade unions in the roll-out of UniForum at Bristol. UCU […]
Month: July 2017
1) 2-Days A Week Unpaid As well as making some timely comments about the avarice of the vice chancellor caste, former Education minister Baron Andrew Adonis has recently made some crackpot comments regarding academic workload. For the record, UCU’s 2016 Workload Survey found HE staff work ‘an average of more than two days unpaid leave’. […]
1) Restructurings – Finance Services & Timetabling and Examinations Office Restructurings within Finance Services and Timetabling and the Examinations Office were announced at the end of last week. Both have 6-week consultation periods. The proposed Finance Services model has been developed by our new Chief Financial Officer. It proposes a much strengthened senior leadership team […]
1) Promotion and Progression – Update Thank you to everyone who attended our progression and promotion focus groups last week. Pathway 1 and 2 raised a number of important points such as: the importance of ‘progress to progression’ being an integral part of Pathway 1 annual staff review. the fundamental misunderstanding of risk that lurks […]