Motion
- Motion title
- Lesson observation disputes
- Session
- 2009-2010
- Meeting link
- FE conference
- Meeting date
- 31 May 2010
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- FE16
- Motion text
Conference expresses its full solidarity with staff at Richmond Upon Thames College who were presented with swingeing proposals for cuts and redundancies at lunchtime on Friday 7th May.
We condemn the Richmond upon Thames College senior management and governors who have brought a popular college to a state of disarray.
We give our full support to the branch's demands for: No compulsory redundancies; No excessive workloads, Defend RUTC's terms and conditions.
This struggle raises serious questions about the democracy and management of FE colleges, including the totally undemocratic manner in which Governors are appointed.
Conference agrees to mount a campaign to expose the completely undemocratic and unaccountable nature of FE governing bodies, and to demand genuine democracy so that FE operates in the educational interests of students, and not according to the dictats of small elite groups that are largely unelected and unaccountable.
- Proposing body
- Richmond-upon-Thames College
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Further education committee (FEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2010/F/05-31/068/FE16