UCU attends first Associate Lecturer Review Group – March 9

Wednesday 9th March 2016: UCU attended the first Associate Lecturer Review Group

Management have agreed to:

• Collect data on how many ALs undertaking ML duties
• Inform SMT of review
• Explore alternative AL marking/assessment schemes
• Draft survey questions and upload to shared AL google folder
• Contact external facilitator for focus groups
• Write to Deans asking them to identify 3-4 ALs willing to participate in focus group
• Identify substantive academic staff who also have AL contract
• Provide data on ALs and their FTE for next meeting
• Provide list of ALs who meet criteria for moving to fractional contract and ask faculties to verify

This document explains UCU’s position in full: UCU submission to AL review meeting 9.03.2016.