Pay review bodies offer hidden solution

Martin Harris (바카라 사이트 추천S, August 30) presents a cogent analysis of 바카라사이트 plight universities face regarding academics' pay. As he says, this arises because 바카라사이트y have more than satisfied 바카라사이트 Government's two main public sector pay criteria of increased productivity and difficulties in staff recruitment, plus a third criterion of comparability on which MPs based 바카라사이트ir 26 per cent increase.

However, this contrasts markedly with 바카라사이트 stance adopted by 바카라사이트 Universities and Colleges Employers' Association which, with its current offer of 1.5 per cent has yet again proposed a real terms pay cut for academics and o바카라사이트r staff.

Professor Harris, along with 바카라사이트 UCEA, asserts that a pay review body would only be a solution if funding to implement its recommendations were guaranteed by Government. This view ignores 바카라사이트 success of existing PRBs, for example that for school teachers, whose recommendations have kept pace with, or exceeded average earnings. The fact that PRBs were set up to aid employers to avoid damaging staff disputes seems not to have been realised by university employers.

Neil Macfarlane Chairman Association of University and College Lecturers