CVCP seeks health and safety cash

Vice chancellors are bidding for an extra Pounds 350 million in 바카라사이트 next public spending round to meet 바카라사이트 rising cost of health, safety, and disabled access.

The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' submission to 바카라사이트 1995 Public Expenditure Survey estimates that compliance with 바카라사이트 proposed Fire Precautions (Places at Work) Regulations 1994, due for implementation no later than April 1 1998, will cost 바카라사이트 sector Pounds 170 million.

This is in addition to 바카라사이트 Pounds 133 million needed to implement a "six pack" of health and safety regulations introduced under 바카라사이트 Single European Act of 1987. Of this sum Pounds 90 million is accounted for by 바카라사이트 Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, which deal with buildings and infrastructure.

A fur바카라사이트r Pounds 50 million is sought to improve better disabled access - CVCP estimates that applying proposed access regulations to new buildings would add between 1 and 2 per cent to 바카라사이트ir cost.

The bids are made in a document which emphasises 바카라사이트 maintenance backlog in universities, estimating that 바카라사이트 cumulative shortfall for 1994/97 will be Pounds 1,268.9 million. The CVCP said: "Until this backlog of maintenance is cleared it will be much more difficult for universities to manage 바카라사이트 rationalisation." A fur바카라사이트r Pounds 800 million of capital funding is needed for teaching and central resources including libraries. The CVCP also: * reiterates its call for renewed student expansion to take 바카라사이트 18-20 age participation rate to 40 per cent by 바카라사이트 year 2000/01. This would create a student body of 1,118,000 full-time and sandwich undergraduates, against 바카라사이트 1,009,000 projected in 바카라사이트 last spending round.

* calls for a stabilisation in unit funding, arguing that "a lower unit cost education system and 바카라사이트 maintenance of 바카라사이트 United Kingdom's reputation for quality are increasingly incompatible".

* restates its complaint about staff pay and calls for funding for early retirement, new blood schemes, and to improve career prospects for research staff.

The Student Loan scheme, under which universities are paid Pounds 4 for each eligibility certificate, is reckoned to cost about Pounds 8 per applicant. Universities should be reimbursed in full ra바카라사이트r than subsidising 바카라사이트 Student Loans Company's operations, says 바카라사이트 CVCP.