British universities:Agony at Aston
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<bdy>The legal quirk that provides security of tenure for full-time academics at British universities, is likely to be tested in a forthcoming battle between the University of Aston in Birmingham and the Association of University Teachers (AUT). The outcome will set an important precedent for other universities.
Aston was told in July 1981 by the University Grants Committee (UGC) that its budget would be reduced by 30 per cent in the succeeding three years. A large-scale programme of voluntary redundancies has already been approved, but now the university's council has voted by a narrow margin (19 votes to 17, with one absentee and one abstention) to effect compulsory redundancies under the 1975 Employment Protection Act. It is thought that 41 academics (chiefly in the fields of engineering and mathematics) could be given notice before Christmas.
The union, according to its general secretary, Mr Laurie Sapper, is prepared to fight all the way. An application to the High Court for a writ to prevent the redundancies is being considered. The grounds of the action are that compulsory redundancies would be contrary to the charter and statutes of the university which (like those of most universities in England and Wales) specify that "no member of staff . . . shall be removed from office ..." except on grounds such as physical or mental incapacity and immoral, scandalous or criminal behaviour; there is no mention of financial circumstances as a cause for dismissal.
AUT has sought access to the university's accounting figures so that it can carry out its own examination of the university's finances, but Mr Sapper says that Professor Frederick Crawford, Aston's vice-chancellor, has failed to respond to AUT's letters. AUT has accordingly applied for access under the Employment Protection Act.
Aston is primarily technology-based, and has forged extensive links with local industry. The university says that the unemployment rate among its graduates is one of the lowest in Britain.
UGC recommended in July 1981 that student numbers in several science subjects should be reduced and that courses in biological science and architecture should be discontinued. Aston has already axed its courses in human communication and behavioural sciences. The number of science students has fallen from 3,100 in 1980-S1 to 2,732 now, while arts student numbers have fallen from 1,383 to 1,340, but further reductions have still to be made. Full-time academic staff, of whom there were 522 in August 1981, will have to be reduced to 357 by July 1984.
At the same time, the university plans to recruit extra staff in some subjects, notably for its Management Centre, which received special praise from UGC. It is also determined to maintain a biology presence, possibly by means of a new biotechnology unit. But staff of the existing biology department have refused to examine that plan on the grounds that it would probably involve abandoning the university's established expertise in applied biology and also lead to redundancies.
Dr Richard Etheridge, a senior lecturer in production technology at Aston and a member of the AUT national executive, says that the university staff feel that the vice-chancellor is imposing redundancies with unseemly haste. The Department of Employment was notified of the proposals (as required by employment law) on 18 November, and redundancy notices could be issued as early as 22 December. Several attempts by academic staff at the most recent meeting of the university senate to introduce motions urging reconsideration or delay were blocked by the vice-chancellor on the grounds that these were not procedural matters.
The issue is certain to be raised again at the next meeting of the university council on 14 December. AUT is planning to lobby council members on that day, urging them to reconsider, and has threatened to tell its members elsewhere to boycott the university, depriving it of external examiners and putting existing procedures for the award of degrees in hazard.</bdy></headerx></istex:document></istex:metadataXml><mods version="3.6"><titleInfo><title>British universities:Agony at Aston</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="alternative" contentType="CDATA"><title>British universities:Agony at Aston</title></titleInfo><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">Tim</namePart><namePart type="family">Beardsley</namePart><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><genre type="article" displayLabel="News (nw)" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XTP-6N5SZHKN-D">article</genre><originInfo><publisher>Nature Publishing Group</publisher><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">1982-12-02</dateIssued><copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf">1982</copyrightDate></originInfo><physicalDescription><internetMediaType>text/html</internetMediaType></physicalDescription><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>Nature</title></titleInfo><genre type="journal" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://publication-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://publication-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/JMC-0GLKJH51-B">journal</genre><identifier type="ISSN">0028-0836</identifier><part><date>1982</date><detail type="volume"><caption>vol.</caption><number>300</number></detail><detail type="issue"><caption>no.</caption><number>5891</number></detail><extent unit="pages"><start>395</start><end>396</end></extent></part></relatedItem><identifier type="istex">43D2006DD4D7ADE1CC264C1F6FE7FB9194456D35</identifier><identifier type="ark">ark:/67375/GT4-FJ3TNSC3-Q</identifier><identifier type="DOI">10.1038/300395b0</identifier><identifier type="ArticleID">300395b0</identifier><accessCondition type="use and reproduction" contentType="copyright">©1982 Nature Publishing Group</accessCondition><recordInfo><recordContentSource authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://loaded-corpus.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://loaded-corpus.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XBH-4WZF4NWT-L">nature</recordContentSource><recordOrigin>Nature Publishing Group</recordOrigin></recordInfo></mods><json:item><extension>json</extension><original>false</original><mimetype>application/json</mimetype><uri>https://api.istex.fr/document/43D2006DD4D7ADE1CC264C1F6FE7FB9194456D35/metadata/json</uri></json:item></metadata><serie></serie></istex></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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