Managing Deployment

Introductions.

What do we understand by ‘academic staff deployment’.

Contractual matters.

The Process – an overview

– Who is involved?

– When should it take place?

– Consultation.

– Management responsibility.

Purpose (agreed national text)

To achieve education provision of a high standard.

To recognise the professional contribution which lecturers make to the HE sector.

To avoid lecturers undertaking unreasonable workloads.

To enable the distribution of work to be carried out locally and fairly within an institution taking into account the local circumstances.

Principles (agreed national text)

The duties and responsibilities of a lecturer are inherently of a professional nature and are wide ranging.

The proportion of time an individual should devote to any of these activities is a matter for professional judgement.

Both staff and management jointly have a responsibility to seek to enhance the quality of educational provision.

Working Hours (agreed national text)

However, workloads which damage performance and which are detrimental to the lecturer, students and the service must be avoided through good management practice.

It is not appropriate in a professional contract to be specific as to the exact hours of availability for duties.

Working Hours (agreed national text)

In relation to teaching duties a reasonable norm may be helpful at institutional level.

An individual lecturer may normally expect to have formal scheduled teaching responsibilities for students within a band of 14 to 18 hours a week on average over the anticipated teaching year of that lecturer.

Working Hours (agreed national text)

Formal scheduled teaching responsibilities should not exceed 18 hours in any week or a total of 550 hours in the teaching year.

Special regard should be given to family responsibilities.

Factors To Take Into Account

Ten factors (agreed national text).Eight local safeguards.

– 3 consecutive hours.– 1 hour lunch break.– 2 evenings.– 8 hours in one single day.

Fast track grievance procedure.

Who is covered?

All staff on nationally agreed

contract.

Part-time lecturers – some?

Categories of Activity

1. Course related activity.

– FST.

– TRA.

– Course Management.

Categories of Activity (continued)

2. Academic Development Services and Commercial Services(ASS 1).

3. Academic Support Services(ASS 2).

4. RSA.

How Do We Deal With Changes?

Reasonableness.

Varying internal practices.

One off event or continuous process?

Allocation of Academic Work

Varying practices.

Professional contract v bean counting.

Alternative approach.