Motion
- Motion title
- Campaigning on workload protection in HE
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2009
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- HE7
- Motion text
HESC notes that for some time now management have been steadily increasing UCU members' workloads using a variety of tactics. In particular members are subject to an increasing pace of change, the pressure to carry out 'internationally competitive' research, and increasing student numbers.
These pressures are likely to increase as recession bites.
Workload is an equality and a health and safety issue, threatening health and reducing quality of life. Additionally, increasing workload is an attack on academic freedom, curbing as it does the time available for free study time and scholarship. HESC urges ROCC to make workload a campaigning priority for the union and recommends to ROCC the HESC working group paper as a basis for the campaign.
- Proposing body
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/H/05-28/081/HE7