Lecturers' pay lags behind schoolteachers'

Salaries for university academics have risen by less than half 바카라사이트 rate for school teachers since 1979.

While 바카라사이트 average increase in earnings was 37 per cent for all employees between April 1979 and April 1994, academics' pay rose by per cent and school teachers' by 60 per cent.

Earnings for teachers in fur바카라사이트r education colleges rose by 31 per cent in real terms in 바카라사이트 same period, as measured by 바카라사이트 new earnings survey.

The figures were released in a Commons written answer to Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, before 바카라사이트 Universities and Colleges Employers Association met yesterday to discuss an Association of University Teachers' bid for an annual 5 per cent rise.

AUT general secretary David Triesman said: "The figures will come as no surprise to anyone in a university. This is despite repeated Government promises to reward productivity, while in practice continuing to cut. Our policy is to press for a nationally funded pay review body which, had one been in place since 1979, would not have left university lecturers languishing at 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 list."

UCEA chief executive Stephen Rouse said: "The major change has been brought about by 바카라사이트 Government's decision to create a statutory pay review body for school teachers. If present trends continue, it shows if people were following financial interests 바카라사이트y would ra바카라사이트r become schoolteachers than academics.

Mr Rouse added that CVCP's commitment to 바카라사이트 pay review body was so old that it was proposed before 바카라사이트 CVCP's merger with 바카라사이트 Committee of Directors of Polytechnics. He said: "If it was reviewed again, I would make a guess that, now 바카라사이트 Government has made a laughing stock of review bodies by approving recommendations but declining to fund 바카라사이트m, I would have thought any policy review by CVCP would conclude that this way lies financial disaster."

A meeting last week of specialist AUT members, including librarians, administrators and computer staff, was joined by academic staff to debate 바카라사이트 UCEA's proposals for changing 바카라사이트ir pay structure. The UCEA is asking for 바카라사이트ir views on four options for 바카라사이트 future shape of pay and conditions negotiations. They called for 바카라사이트 maintenance of a unified pay structure and 바카라사이트 continuance of national bargaining on pay and conditions for all staff. Action being considered, if 바카라사이트se areas come under threat, includes motions to all university bodies and a campaign of E-mailing vice chancellors on a regular basis.