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The COUNCIL beg leave to report to the University as follows:
1. The revised regulations for the Unified Administrative Service that were approved by Grace 1, 20 June 2001, as amended by the Council in their Second Report on the Unified Administrative Service (Reporter, p. 23), require (Regulation 8) the scales of stipends of the various offices in the Service to be determined by Grace. In this Report the Council propose arrangements to be adopted for the office of Director for which, as a new office, no provision has previously been made.
2. In their consideration the Council have had regard to the range of responsibilities attaching to the various Directorships, to comparabilities within the University (not only within the Unified Administrative Service), to the stipends currently payable to existing Directors, and to the need for flexibility in recruitment.
3. The Council have concluded that, by analogy with Professors and other senior office holders, each Director should be appointed on a specific step in the professorial range, appropriate to the particular circumstances of his or her appointment, and that subsequent progression should be under the arrangements for supplementary payments only, that is, while there will be a range within the general scale, there will be no incremental scale for individuals. However the Council recognize that some flexibility is required on appointment and that, if the University is to attract the best qualified candidates, it would be inappropriate to specify such single steps for each Directorship in advance. Accordingly they propose that a range of steps be approved within which appointments are to be made and that actual stipends on appointment be determined within that range by the Council. The step attaching to each office of Director will be published annually in Schedule II to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 647-9).
4. The Council intend that holders of the office of Director in any of the Divisions of the Unified Administrative Service would, if the proposals on the range of stipends to be used are approved, be eligible for consideration for supplementary payments under the arrangements for the holders of academic-related offices in the professorial grade (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 809). They have included a recommendation to this effect in this Report to clarify this matter.
5. Accordingly, the Council recommend:
I. That the stipend attaching to the office of Director within the Unified Administrative Service be within the range of step 31 to step 41 of the general scale of stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 646) as amended from time to time;
II. That the stipend of each Director be determined by the Council on appointment to the office at a single step within this range and published in Schedule II to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 647-9).
III. That holders of the office of Director within the Unified Administrative Service be included in the arrangements for the review of stipends of academic-related staff in the professorial grade.1
1 See paragraphs 41 and 42 of the Report of the General Board on the recruitment, reward, and retention of academic and academic-related officers (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 809).
| 3 June 2002 | ALEC N. BROERS, Vice-Chancellor | DONALD LAMING | JEREMY SANDERS |
| JOHN BOYD | IAN LESLIE | M. SCHOFIELD | |
| PETER GODDARD | A. M. LONSDALE | LIBA TAUB | |
| D. A. GOOD | D. W. MACDONALD | R. E. THORNTON | |
| GORDON JOHNSON | JAMES MATHESON |
I do not agree with Recommendation II of the Report because it reverses the decision of the Second Report of the Council on the Unified Administrative Service, which Report was in the nature of a compromise agreement to secure the passage of the Council's first Report.
G. A. Reid
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Cambridge University Reporter,
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.