Motion
- Motion title
- Vice chancellors and solidarity
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2011
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE24
- Motion text
Conference notes the solidarity displayed by vice-chancellors in opposing their staff on the issues of reasonable pay (an increase of only 0. 4% when RPI is close to 5%), job security (refusal to discuss a national agreement) and pensions (cuts which threaten the survival of the USS).
Conference also notes the lack of solidarity displayed by vice-chancellors in anticipation of and reaction to the Coalition Government's funding cuts and its clear redefinition of the purposes of higher education. The 'cut-them-not-me' approach has resulted in disproportionately large cuts.
Conference urges UUK to defend higher education as a funded public good providing access unfettered by fear of significant debt, and to defend universities as centres of critical thinking, promoting play of the imagination and visions of future possibilities. It urges vice-chancellors to meet with NUS and UCU at institutional and national levels to build progressive alternative policies on HE funding and widening participation.
- Proposing body
- University of Hull
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2011/H/05-28/069/HE24