UK university staff plan 18 more days of strike action

What a sillybilly pay offer.

Academics can get much better pay once excess management and excess bureaucracy is tackled. The waste of money in these areas is staggerinbg.

What is on 'offer' is not a 'pay rise', that is incorrect. It is a slightly less damaging pay cut. The offer ranges from 7% more (i.e. real terms -3%) from August for UCU members on £22,662, to 4% more (i.e. real terms -6%) for members on £50,030 (point 43) and more with part of this increase backdated to February 2023. For the higher band, this is a 2-year cumulative 16.3% pay cut against RPI (12% against CPI).

If there are any HE economists out there - it would be interesting to see how much money has been spent in the sector in the past 10 years (after the removal of the student number cap) on marketing, advertising and recruitment - all that money spent on institutions competing with one another for the fixed pool of students each year - could have been spent on lower fees and higher pay!