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Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the implementation in Cambridge of the 2002 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 dated 4 November 2002 (Reporter, p. 263) the Council announced that the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) had made an offer for an increase in the salaries of all non-clinical academic and academic-related staff and assistant staff. The terms of the offer were:

The offer has been accepted by the national trade unions and an agreement signed by the unions and UCEA.

2. It was stated in the Bett Report¹ in 1999 that:

There is widespread agreement that present HE pay structures are badly in need of rationalisation and strong arguments about the need for their modernisation in other respects.

Paragraph 109, p. 37

As a first step in the process of modernization the 2002 national pay award introduced an interim pay spine. Negotiations are currently taking place nationally with a view to introducing a single pay spine for higher education by summer 2003.

3. Bett also recommended that:

Job evaluation, or some other job analysis and ranking system, will be essential for the sorts of reform to pay structures outlined.

Recommendation 24, p. 103

The Report went on to state that institutions would need to use an appropriate and effective job evaluation system for this purpose. The institutions within higher education are accordingly, in the light of advice from UCEA, taking this forward and seeking to introduce new pay and grading methodologies underpinned by an effective job analysis scheme. The Council and the General Board hope to be in a position soon to inform the University of the progress that has been made in this area in Cambridge.

4. The Council and the General Board considered the terms of the offer and have agreed that:

(i)	the stipends for all non-clinical University officers whose stipends are steps on the general scale of stipends be increased by the percentages shown in the Notice and in the Annex attached to this Report;
(ii)	the stipends for officers whose stipends are not steps on the general scale be increased by 3.5%, except the stipend of the Deputy High Steward;2
(iii)	the payments for administrative responsibility specified in Regulation 1 of the regulations for payments additional to stipends, the discretionary payments made to University Lecturers and certain other officers, and the supplementary payments made to Professors and certain other officers be increased by 3.5%.

5. The Council submitted a Grace (Grace 1, 6 November 2002) to the Regent House for the approval of the above proposals. This Grace was subsequently approved. Corresponding increases in the stipends of those offices which do not require the approval of the University have been approved by the Council and the General Board, as appropriate, as well as the corresponding increases in the salaries of analogous unestablished staff. In the case of contract research staff and other staff supported on non-central funds, payment of the increase was conditional on funds being available to meet the cost of the increase from the relevant funding source.

6. The Notice indicated that the details of implementation of the 2002 pay offer on stipends would be set out in the usual Joint Report of the Council and the General Board. This Report sets out the detail referred to in the Notice and incorporates the usual corrections in the entries to the Schedules.

7. The bottom point of the national Lecturer Grade A scale is the same as the bottom point of the Cambridge University Assistant Lecturer scale. The Council and the General Board have accordingly agreed that, with effect from 1 August 2002, the bottom point of the University Assistant Lecturership scale be abolished. University Assistant Lecturers on this point on or after 1 August 2002 will be retrospectively moved to the next higher point (step 10 of the University scale of stipends) from that date. Any adjustment to the scale of stipends for University Assistant Lecturers requires approval by the Regent House. A recommendation to make this adjustment has therefore been included in paragraph 14 of this Report.

8. In addition to increases in stipends, certain other payments have also been increased, as detailed in paragraphs 9 and 10 of this Report.

Discretionary payments to University officers

9. The annual rate of the pensionable discretionary awards to University officers in non-professorial grades has been increased to £2,091 from 1 August 2002. Although the scheme has been abolished and replaced by new arrangements for awarding additional increments on a permanent basis, with effect from 1 October 2000, discretionary payments currently held by University officers will continue for a transitional period.

Supplementary payments to Professors

10. The four rates of pensionable supplementary payments to Professors approved by Grace 8 of 25 November 1998 remain at 13, 26, 39, and 53 per cent of the standard Cambridge professorial stipend. The payments accordingly have been increased from 1 August 2002 as follows (see paragraph 1 above):

13% to £6,459;
26% to £12,918;
39% to £19,377;
53% to £26,333.

Pensionable payments additional to stipend for the holders of certain University offices

11. Formal approval for these payments will no longer require approval of the Regent House since all pensionable payments additional to stipend are now approved under the authority of Regulation 1 of the regulations for payments additional to stipend (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 669). The payments in question have been increased by 3.5% and are those to:

a University officer designated resident Warden of Madingley Hall;
an Assistant Secretary or Senior Assistant Secretary, Institute of Continuing Education, designated Deputy Secretary;
a Careers Adviser, designated Deputy Director;
a Keeper or Senior Keeper, Fitzwilliam Museum, designated Deputy Director;
a Counsellor designated Head of the University Counselling Service.

Stipends determined by the Council or the General Board

12. 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. 665-669) so as to take account of the transfer of the following offices:

Assistant Secretary in the Department of Physics to Secretary, Grade B;

Librarian in the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology to Librarian, Grade B;

Assistant Administrator in the Clinical School, Public Health Aggregate Administrator in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Departmental Secretary in the Institute of Astronomy, and Departmental Secretary in the Language Centre to Secretaries, Grade C.

13. The scale of stipend for the office of Assistant Keeper in the Fitzwilliam Museum has a scale identical with that of the office of University Assistant Lecturer. The Council have agreed to approve a similar adjustment in the case of this office, subject to the approval of the recommendation in paragraph 14.

14. The Council and the General Board recommend:

That, with effect from 1 August 2002, Schedule I, Stipends and scales of stipends for University offices specified in Statute D, I, 1(a) and certain other offices (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 664), be amended so that the entry for University Assistant Lecturer reads as follows:

University Assistant Lecturer       Step 10 to 13

ANNEX

The approval of the Grace referred to in paragraph 5 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. 663)) reads, with effect from 1 August 2002, as follows:

The payments made to Heads of Departments for administrative responsibility (Regulation 1 of the regulations for payments additional to stipend (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 669) are, with effect from 1 August 2002:

Schedule 1 £14,897
Schedule 2 £12,415
Schedule 3 £9,932
Schedule 4 £4,966
Schedule 5 £3,724
Schedule 6 £2,979

Schedules I, II, and III to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 664-669) have been amended as follows with effect from 1 August 2002:

SCHEDULE I

Certain entries have been amended so as to read:

Vice-Chancellor	£135,086
Pro-Vice-Chancellor	£41,238
Deputy High Steward3	£4 (non-pensionable)
Proctor	£8,641 (non-pensionable)
Orator	£3,984
Esquire Bedell	£3,510
University Advocate	£1,870
Slade Professor of Fine Art	£8,949
Registrary	£73,532
SCHEDULE II
Certain entries have been amended so as to read:
Pro-Proctor	£4,869 (non-pensionable)
Additional Pro-Proctor4	£3,887 (non-pensionable)
Special Pro-Proctor	£4,107 (non-pensionable)
University Organist	£2,049
Fitzwilliam Museum Assistant Keeper5	Step 10 to 13
University Development Office Development Director	£125,442
University Health Services Dental Officer	£35,950 by 7 increments to £43,193
SCHEDULE III Certain entries have been amended so as to read:
Secretaries of Faculties, Departments, and other institutions (By including the following offices in the particular grade shown for the tenure of the present holder only)
Grade B
Assistant Secretary of the Department of Physics	Step 11 to 22 (and 25, 26, and 27)
Grade C
Assistant Administrator of the Clinical School	Step 10 to 15 (and 16 and 17)
Public Health Aggregate Administrator in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care	Step 10 to 15 (and 16 and 17)
Departmental Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy	Step 10 to 15 (and 16 and 17)
Departmental Secretary of the Language Centre	Step 10 to 15 (and 16 and 17)

Librarians of Faculties, Departments, and other institutions

(By including the following offices in the particular grade shown for the tenure of the present holder only)

Grade B

Librarian of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology Step 8 to 15 (and 16 and 17)

¹Independent Review of Higher Education Pay and Conditions. Report of a Committee chaired by Sir Michael Bett. The Stationery Office 1999.

² By ancient custom the Deputy High Steward receives a nominal stipend of £4 a year.

³ By ancient custom the Deputy High Steward receives a nominal stipend of £4 a year.

⁴Payment at this rate has been approved for additional Pro-Proctors appointed under Regulation 4 for Proctors and Pro-Proctors; the payment to any additional Pro-Proctor appointed under Regulation 5 will be determined in accordance with the particular duties involved.

⁵ Subject to the approval of the recommendation in paragraph 14 of this Report.

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