Reports

Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on revisions to the arrangements for the contribution-based review of Professorial pay

The Council and the General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The current arrangements for the biennial contribution-based review of Professorial salaries have been in place since the approval and implementation of the Second Joint Report of the Council and General Board on a new pay and grading structure for non-clinical staff (Reporter, 6002, 2004–05, p. 745). Under those arrangements there is a School-level Committee for each School which considers applications from Professors on scale points 68–76 (Band 1) for contribution increments within the band, or progression to a higher band. The Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Professorial Pay receives recommendations for progression from the School-level Committees and considers the cases for Professors in Band 2 and above.

2. Since those arrangements were introduced, the number of non-clinical Professors has increased substantially, and the complexity of the arrangements have grown following the amendments to the pay structure approved in 2013 (Reporter, 6302, 2012–13, p. 423) with implications for the load of cases to be considered by the Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee.

3. In order to redistribute the load, the Council and the General Board propose that the remit of the School-level Committees be expanded, with the Vice-Chancellor’s Committee focussing on the upper end of the scale and exercising a moderating role. Accordingly, it is proposed that in future the School-level Committee should include the consideration of cases from Professors in both Band 1 and 2 for within band increments, and possible progression to Band 3, or above. The Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee would continue to consider applications from Professors in Band 3 and Band 4, together with the recommendations of the School-level Committees.

Each School-level Committee would be constituted from Professors in Band 3 or Band 4 and be chaired by the Head of School. As at present, the relevant member of the Vice-Chancellor’s Committee would participate in the work of the School-level Committee. In order to manage potential conflicts of interest, an application from a member of the School-level Committee would be submitted directly for consideration by the Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee. The Chair of each School-level Committee would attend the relevant part of the meeting of the Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee to present the Committee’s recommendations and answer questions on them.

4. The Council and the General Board recommend:

I. That the revisions to the contribution-based review of Professorial pay, as set out in paragraph 3 of this Report, be approved.

24 November 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Richard Jones	Shirley Pearce
	N. Bampos	Rebecca Lingwood	John Shakeshaft
	Jeremy Caddick	Mavis McDonald	Jean Thomas
	Anne Davis	Susan Oosthuizen	Evianne van Gijn
	David Good	Rachael Padman	A. D. Yates
	Helen Hoogewerf-McComb

5 November 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Duncan Maskell	Rob Richardson
	Philip Allmendinger	Patrick Maxwell	Evianne van Gijn
	N. Bampos	Martin Millett	Graham Virgo
	M. J. Daunton	Rachael Padman	Chris Young
	Robert Kennicutt	Richard Prager