UCU’s higher education committee has agreed to launch an industrial action ballot in the dispute over the future of USS.They have said serious and sustained industrial action is required in the face of damaging proposals from the employers which would effectively destroy the pension scheme. Currently, USS pension benefits are guaranteed for all your salary…
Please find below a report on Thurs 18 May’s momentous Academic Board (AB) Special Meeting. This report has been distributed by email to UCL UCU members. The meeting was called by 22 signatories of a letter in response to a Survey of Board members on the current state of the university and its Management. The…
This message is especially directed at our members on Academic Board, but it is important that the wider membership is aware of what is happening too. A new Governance Committee has been set up by academic board after an unprecedented Special Meeting on which we recently reported. This committee is charged with scrutinizing decisions and…
We invite you to contribute to the all-staff, anonymous ‘consultation’ on the grading process launched by UCL on 8 June 2017 (closes 5pm 23 June).See The Week@UCL and the UCL Staff News website article. We are proposing that colleagues respond to the consultation and when doing so score the Likert scale questions 1 – 6 as ‘N/A’ and…
