Oxford leaves Cambridge in its wake, on local pay issues. £1500 Pensionable “Oxford Weighting” * During her admission speech in January 2023 the Vice-Chancellor, Irene Tracey, commissioned a review of all aspects of pay and conditions for University staff. Not very exciting as Universities love a good review, even more than they love a committee. However unlike the ever parsimonious Cambridge, an institution that would claim it was “a bit broke this month” when everyone was putting into the whip round for a departing colleague, Oxford actually wants to stand its round! https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/pay-and-conditions#collapse4849576 Oxford says The findings of this review… Read more: News From Oxford ,(Never Mind The Boat Race….Where’s our Money?)

In-depth research from Unite, the UK’s leading trade union, has uncovered that Cambridge University is sitting on over £6 billion of cash and investments while trying to maintain it can’t afford to help its lowest-paid workers. The revelations coincide with fresh strike action by university workers. Cleaners, librarians, museum workers and many other staff at the university have been in a long-running pay dispute over the failure of the institution to acknowledge the cost of housing in Cambridge as well as the wider inflationary pressure on its lowest-paid workers. Some are being paid less than £23,000 per year yet live and work in one of the… Read more: Cambridge University revealed to have £6 billion as workers languish on poverty-level wages