UCU has slammed UCEA for condemning students across the UK to continued graduation disruption by refusing to settle the ongoing pay and conditions dispute.
The union was responding to a letter UCEA sent yesterday which said employers will not make any attempt to restore punitive pay deductions for staff who have boycotted marking, nor will they make any improved pay offer.
The marking boycott began at 145 universities on Thursday 20 April and there is no prospect of it coming to an end whilst employers refuse to improve on their pay offer and continue to punitively dock pay. The National Union of Students and many of UCEA's own member institutions such as the University of Cambridge and the University of Sussex have called on it to settle the dispute.
The surplus the sector generated last year could raise pay by 10% and still leave hundreds of millions of pounds spare.
