Latest UK sector pay offer ‘as far as we can go’, say employers

We need to tackle administrative bloat - lets get rid of the unproductive and also review the pay of some of the senior bureaucrats that are getting paid much better than the academic staff.

Surely its also about addressing the other issues that have been raised as part of the dispute - pensions, contracts and workloads. These are not 'academic only' issues UCU also represents a decent number of people in Professional Services. How individual institutions create their organisational design, structure their processes to ensure efficiency and the best service for students is not a direct part of this national dispute. Though as a sector we can undoubtedly always do better.

It's almost like we're seeing the obvs fallout of a botched plan to "marketise" universities which in reality leaves them in a dysfunctional (dystopian?) limbo between a commercial and a publicly-funded enterprise.