Sheffield Hallam University has issued more than 120 ‘risk of redundancy’ letters to grade nine staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staff have been given until March 18th to either apply for voluntary redundancy or apply for a limited number of new roles. As a result more than 140 academic staff have left or will be leaving the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The university has also said that cuts to staffing costs for Professional Services will be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The University and College Union (UCU) said these staff members will be replaced by Grade 6 Academic tutor roles which is a breach of the national and local framework agreement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a framework agreed upon in 2004 between the national employers and unions for the modernisation of pay structures in higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A spokesperson for UCU Hallam said: \u201cThe introduction of grade 6 role will be a further degradation of teaching standards at the University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UCU General Secretary Jo Grady has written to the University\u2019s Vice Chancellor Professor Lizz Mossop about the breach which said: \u201cThose agreements\u2026form part of our collective agreements with the university and a proposal to breach such an agreement could lead to serious damage to the industrial relations between the university and UCU.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UCU has outlined their commitment to working with the university to find alternative solutions which do not include staff redundancies or the weakening of teaching standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
General Secretary Grady, spoke to colleagues about the problems within the university’s proposals who mentioned their issues with the introduction of a grade 6 tutor role, line management responsibilities for lecturers and the removal of principal lecturing staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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