Hera
The latest news from the union side is that at the last Special Interest Group last Wednesday we were informed that the number of red circled posts had crept up to 230 !
This figure was so hot off the presses that it was received by a phone call during the meeting!
Not unnaturally we have now asked for the red circled posts to be looked at again - we are also arranging a seperate Support Staff meeting to discuss HERA and the problems that we forsee. Clearly we are not in a position to agree anything yet - Mike Moore said that we were in the van of universities implementing this - my view would be that it's the brake van.
Student Numbers
Amongst issues that were raised were - student numbers - some mixed news here - we have successfully recruited loads of EU based students but not so successful in part time ones.
Travel Policy
The travel to work policy raised itself but unlike UCU we prefer to maintain a dialogue with management to improve the policy rather than walk away (sorry) .
Chartermark
We also had an exchange on the policy of wearing badges as part of the Chartermark and management were disapointed in how these were distributed - we, obviously, were disapointed too but it has not been made policy yet.
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