More than half the UK universities hit by a marking boycott have threatened staff taking part with deduction of full pay, Times Higher Education can reveal.
Amid widespread anger among academics, the University and College Union’s general secretary, Jo Grady, has written to higher education minister Michelle Donelan complaining of institutions’ “needlessly aggressive and escalatory tactics” in the latest round of industrial action over pay, pensions and working conditions.
Staff have been threatened with 100 per cent pay deductions for every day of the boycott at the universities of Brighton, Dundee, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham and Westminster as well as Queen Mary University of London and the University of the Arts London, THE has learned.
