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20% pay rise plan fails to pacify unions

Article Abstract:

Some university lecturers in the UK could see their pay packets increase by over 20% next year, according to figures released by employers. The figures reveal that a junior lecturers at the top of their pay scale at old universities could see their salary increase by 20.3% to over UKPd30,000, vs UKPd25,451 at present, while lecturers on the minimum starting salary at new and old universities could see their pay increase by 12.1% to UKPd24,886 from UKPd22,191. The chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, Jocelyn Prudence, believes that the current offer is "the best opportunity to build a platform for better pay that we have had for a very long time". Despite this, the two main academic trade unions, the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, have dug their heels in over the two-year deal, ratcheting up the threat of industrial action.

Compensation and benefits, Teachers' unions

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Shake-up is price of 7.7% pay offer

Article Abstract:

Lecturers have been offered a 7.7% pay increase over two years, so long as they accept the biggest shake-up in their career structure for 40 years. Following over 28 hours of talks, lecturers saw their employers offer a 3.44% increase for 2003-2004 and a 3% increase for 2004-2005, with an extra 1.1% when universities move on to the national pay spine between 2004 and 2006. The offer is below the 28% that had been demanded by unions and depends on academics accepting measures such as performance-related pay, formal evaluations of their jobs, new appraisals and market-based pay supplements for shortage supplements - all measures that have proved to be unpopular with lecturers.

Educational aspects

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'I think they've gone to the pub'

Article Abstract:

An examination of the impact that the decision by the Association of University Teachers (AUT) to strike over the issue of reforms to the existing national pay structure for lecturers has had at a number of universities across the UK. The AUT argues that reforms to the existing structure could cause existing national pay levels to collapse. The strike appeared to have little impact on the majority of universities, with employers stating that 56% of campuses reported no noticeable impact because of the strike.

College teachers, College faculty, Association of University Teachers

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