Recommendation(s): 50

Recommendation 50: We recommend to the higher education employers that they appoint, after consultation with staff representatives, an independent review committee to report by April 1998 on the framework for determining pay and conditions of service. The Chairman should be appointed on the nomination of the Government.

8.5 Pay and conditions of service in higher education are matters for the higher education employers. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), on behalf of the employers, are taking forward the Committee’s recommendation for an independent review committee. UCEA took up the Government’s offer to facilitate the selection of Chair and on 15 January announced the appointment of Sir Michael Bett as Chair of the independent review committee. The committee will be formed on a tripartite basis with five higher education employer representatives, five trade union representatives and five independent members.

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