Motion
- Motion title
- Student staff ratios (SSRs)
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2011
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE6
- Motion text
Sector Conference notes that the calculation by the Higher Education Statistics Agency of the student:staff ratio (SSR) in UK higher education assumes that all the time of academic staff on a teaching-and-research contract is spent on teaching. As a result, the standard SSR figure in use is likely to produce artificially low SSRs that do not reflect the amount of time these academics spend on research, administration, management and other activities. Conference believes that a SSR figure that more accurately reflects the amount of time academics spend on teaching will be a key statistic in campaigning to increase teaching staff numbers and to reduce current stressfully high levels of staff workload. Conference calls on the HEC to take steps to produce a more accurate SSR at an institutional and cost centre level.
- Proposing body
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2011/H/05-28/050/HE6