Please see the letter from Mike Robinson (National Officer) with reagrd to the recent pay negotiations meeting which took place on Mon 27th April.

The latest round in the 2009/2010 pay claim took place yesterday but unfortunately the employers (UCEA) failed to make an offer. Read Mike Robinson’s (National Officer) letter.

UCU (the Academic union) were also at this meeting having recently agreed to sign up to the new JNCHES agreement.

The other unions presented their joint pay claim which did not include UCU due to their late agreement to join JNCHES. UCU have presented their own seperate pay claim.

The University of Stirling has failed in this year’s green league table published by People and Planet coming in at 106th position which is a drop of over 50 places since last year.

The University media relations of course refute these findings and state that the methodology itself was flawed. It should be noted however that the data used to create the league table in the first place is based on information supplied both by the Universities themselves and the funding councils.

Whatever your views on the University of Stirlings environmental policies and procedures it is clear that we have a long way to go.

People and Planet’s Go Green Campaign is transforming the environmental performance of the UK’s Higher Education sector. Several Universities are starting to clean up their act but there is a long way to go. The Green League 2007 has, for the first time, collected and ranked environmental information on 120 UK universities. It aims to promote transparency of information and encourage senior decision makers to push environmental standards up across the sector.

A recent report by Business In The Community found that the Higher Education (HE) sector scored an average of only 55% on the BITC environment index, compared to the business average of 83%. This puts HE behind the performance of the utilities, consumer services, telecommunications, industrial, and financial sectors.

The University of Stirling was ranked 56th and was awarded a 2.2 on the grading system.