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REPORTS

Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the implementation in Cambridge of the 1999 pay increase for non-clinical academic and academic-related staff

The COUNCIL and the GENERAL BOARD beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. In their Notice on University stipends dated 5 July 1999 (Reporter, p. 818) the Council announced that, following the offer by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association of a 3.5 per cent across-the-board increase in the salaries of non-clinical academic and academic-related staff, and pending the outcome of further discussions at national level, they had agreed to propose an increase of 3.5 per cent on account in all relevant stipends and associated payments with effect from 1 April 1999. This proposal, which was approved by Grace 1 of 7 July 1999, was subject to the outcome of the national negotiations; these have not yet been completed, and the resulting increase is therefore an interim increase. Corresponding increases have been approved, by the Council or the General Board as appropriate, in those stipends that do not require the approval of the University. The effect of these increases on the general scale of stipends for University offices, and on certain other stipends and payments, is shown in the Annex to the present Report; the opportunity has been taken to include a number of changes resulting from the approval (by Graces 7, 8, and 10 of 25 November 1998) of proposals put forward by the General Board in their Report, dated 3 June 1998, on the recruitment, reward, and retention of academic and academic-related officers (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 804).

2. These increases in stipends entail consequential changes in the provisions relating to deductions on account of College emoluments and in the maximum level of payments for administrative work; these changes are set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 below. In addition to increases in stipends, certain other payments have also been increased, as detailed in paragraphs  5 and 6.

3. Deductions on account of College emoluments

The increase in the maximum of the scale of stipends for University Lecturers has resulted in an increase to £6,400 from 1 April 1999 in the maximum emoluments that an officer may receive from a College without attracting deductions from his or her University stipend.

4. Payments additional to stipend

In accordance with Regulation 5 of the regulations for payments additional to stipend (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 641), the maximum annual rate of non-pensionable payment that may be made to any person on account of administrative work on behalf of a Faculty or Department has also been increased to £6,400 from 1 April 1999.

5. Discretionary payments to University officers

The annual rate of the pensionable discretionary awards to University officers in non-professorial grades has been increased to £1,867 from 1 April 1999.

6. Supplementary payments to Professors

As a result of the new arrangements approved by Grace 8 of 25 November 1998, there are now four rates of pensionable supplementary payments to Professors; these have been increased to £5,766, £11,533, £17,299, and £23,509 from 1 April 1999.

7. Stipends determined by the Council or the General Board

The opportunity has been taken to update the Schedules of stipends and scales of stipends which are determined by the Council or the General Board (Schedules II and III, Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 636 and 638) by including adjustments which have been made to the stipends and scales of stipends of certain offices; these are the offices of Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics and Librarian of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

8. Possible further adjustments

As noted in paragraph 1 above, the national negotiations on salary increases in 1999 have not yet been completed, and the present increase of 3.5 per cent is therefore an interim increase. It may be necessary to make further adjustments in Cambridge stipends in the light of any final settlement.

26 July 1999

ALEC N. BROERS, Vice-Chancellor TRISTAN JONES ONORA O'NEILL
TONY BADGER DONALD LAMING JEREMY SANDERS
A. L. R. FINDLAY JOHN A. LEAKE M. SCHOFIELD
DAVID HARRISON A. M. LONSDALE DAVID M. THOMPSON
B. A. HEPPLE M. D. MACLEOD R. E. THORNTON

21 July 1999

J. E. CARROLL, Vice-Chancellor's deputy JOHN A. LEAKE ADRIAN POOLE
P. J. BAYLEY PETER LIPTON K. B. PRETTY
A. L. R. FINDLAY N. J. MACKINTOSH M. SCHOFIELD
BRIAN F. G. JOHNSON

Annex

The approval of the Graces referred to in paragraph 1 of this Report has resulted in the following changes in stipends and other payments:

The general scale of stipends for University offices (Regulation 1 of the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 635)) now reads, with effect from 1 April 1999, as follows:

Step Age Stipend
£
1 20 11,700
2 21 12,604
3 22 13,507
4 23 14,418
5 24 15,361
6 25 16,286
7 26 17,238
8 27 18,185
9 28 18,915
10 29 19,869
11 30 20,811
12 31 21,597
13 32 22,579
14 33 23,521
15 34 24,479
16 35 25,452
17 36 26,429
Step Age Stipend
£
18 37 27,451
19 38 28,478
20 39 29,519
20A 39 30,065
21 40 30,528
22 41 32,095
23 32,571
24 33,593
25 33,764
26 35,670
27 37,539
28 41,116
29 44,357
30 53,227
31 55,445
32 57,663

The payments made to Heads of Departments for administrative responsibility (Regulation 1 of the regulations for payments additional to stipend (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 641)) are now as follows:

Schedule 1 £13,307
Schedule 2 £11,089
Schedule 3 £8,871
Schedule 4 £4,436
Schedule 5 £3,327
Schedule 6 £2,218

Schedules I, II, and III to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 636) have been amended as follows:

SCHEDULE I

The detail has been amended so as to read:

Vice-Chancellor £118,305
Pro-Vice-Chancellor £35,816
Deputy High Steward £4 (non-pensionable)
Proctor £7,715 (non-pensionable)
Orator £3,556
Esquire Bedell £3,133
University Advocate £1,670
Professor specified in Schedule B of the Statutes Step 29
Slade Professor of Fine Art £7,989
Reader Step 27
University Lecturer Step 11 to 22
University Assistant Lecturer Step 7 to 13
Registrary £65,648
Secretary General of the Faculties, Librarian, Treasurer Step 32
Deputy Registrary, Deputy Secretary General of the Faculties, Deputy Treasurer Step 29
Principal Assistant Registrary, Principal Assistant Treasurer Step 28
Senior Assistant Registrary, Senior Assistant Treasurer Step 26
Assistant Registrary, Assistant Treasurer Step 11 to 22

SCHEDULE II

Certain entries have been amended so as to read:

Pro-Proctor £4,347 (non-pensionable)
Additional Pro-Proctor £3,471 (non-pensionable)
Special Pro-Proctor £3,667 (non-pensionable)
University Organist £1,833
Secretary General and Chief Executive, Local Examinations Syndicate £72,925
Development Director £59,157
Dental Officer £32,095 by 7 increments to £38,561

Pensionable payments additional to stipend for the holders of certain University offices have been amended so as to read:

A University officer designated resident Warden of Madingley Hall £4,014
Assistant Secretary, Board of Continuing Education, designated Deputy Secretary £2,042
Careers Adviser designated Deputy Director of the Careers Service £3,599
Keeper or Senior Keeper, Fitzwilliam Museum, designated Deputy Director £2,042
Senior Counsellor designated Head of the Counselling Service £766

SCHEDULE III

Certain entries have been amended so as to read:

Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics Step 8 to 15
Librarian of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (Grade A) Step 12 to 22

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Cambridge University Reporter, 28 July 1999
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