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The Association of University Teachers (AUT) is the trade union and professional association that represents academic (teaching and research) and academic-related (librarians, IT managers and senior administrators) at pre-1992 universities in the United Kingdom. The current (2005) general secretary of AUT is Sally Hunt. Image File history File links Logoaut. ...
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This is a list of universities in the United Kingdom. ...
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AUT also has branches in a number of post-1992 universities (the ex-polytechnics and other institutes that have become universities since 1992) and in university colleges, although the main union representing academic staff in these institutes is the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE). The term university college is used in a number of countries to denote institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. ...
The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) is the trade union and professional assocation: for people working with those above statutory school age, and primarily concerned with providing education, training or research. ...
On December 2nd 2005 the results of a membership ballot on a merger of AUT and NATFHE was announced. The merger was supported by 79.2% of AUT and 95.7% of NATFHE members who voted. The two unions will amalgamate on 1 June 2006, and then enter a transitional year until full operational unity is achieved in June 2007. The new union will be called the University and College Union (UCU). The University and College Union (UCU) is a UK trade union to be formed from the merger of the AUT and NATFHE. The union will be formed on 1st June 2006. ...
As of 2006 AUT and NATFHE are in industrial dispute with Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) over pay. AUT and NATFHE claim that UCEA promised that one third of the extra income from top up fees would be spent on pay [1] and their 2006 pay claim is based on this. UCEAs initial response was "that it is very likely that a significant proportion of the HE sectors new income will be spent on improvements in staff pay and conditions, but that HEIs had never given a commitment".[2]. AUT and NATFHE have both recently voted for strike action and carried out a one day stoppage. They are currently boycotting the setting and marking of exams and other coursework. [3]. Jocelyn Prudence said: "UCEA hopes that Natfhe and AUT will now put any industrial action on hold and seek to engage in constructive dialogue alongside the other unions"[4]. The as of technique is a way to deal with statements that date quickly. ...
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History
The formation of AUT (1909-1919) In 1909, R. Douglas Laurie, a young zoology lecturer at Liverpool University called a meeting "To consider a proposal to form an Association for bringing together the members of the Junior Staff more into touch with one another and with the life of the University" Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. ...
At this time an increasing number of non-professorial staff were being employed. These Junior Staff or Assistant Lecturers were poorly paid, did essentially the same duties as professors and had few promotion prospects. In addition they had no representation on the bodies governing the Universities. Although the society formed at Liverpool was formally a "dining and discussion society" from an early stage it was clearly a new pressure group. A professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and/or researcher usually employed by a college or university. ...
An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ...
At first its aims were local and in 1910 it won a campaign over representation on the faculties but on learning that similar groups had been formed or were in the process of formation they invited representatives of the junior staff from Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff and Manchester for a dinner. A faculty is a division within a university. ...
In 1913 the junior staff at Manchester University presented a request for improvements in pay and grading to their University Council. This included a suggestion that the starting pay should be substantially increased. The Council replied that while it agreed that eventually there should be an increase, at the current time there was insufficient money to pay for this. University of Manchester Motto: Cognitio Sapientia Hvmanitas Knowledge, wisdom, humanity. ...
By 1917 inflation had rapidly eroded the value of salaries and Doglas Laurie called a meeting on 15th December 1917 to draw up a memorandum to present to the Board of Education. Almost as an after thought he invited representatives of Assistant Lecturers from all Unviersities. The meeting was attended by delegates from 15 instiutions. The issues raised by the memorandum drafted at the meeting included: pay; tenure; status; grading; opportunites for research and superannuation. Finally a motion was passed to a new association with the name "The Association of University Lecturers". The name (which implicitly excluded professors from membership) caused some dissent but a split was prevented. However the Scottish Lecturers went there own way and formed a separate Association in 1922 which later merged with AUT in 1949 but retained some of its autonomy. The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...
Tenure commonly refers to academic tenure systems, in which professors (at the university level)—and in some jurisdictions schoolteachers (at primary or secondary school levels)—are granted the right not to be dismissed without cause after an initial probationary period. ...
A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life. ...
The issue of pensions brought the idea of professional unity to the fore. The pension scheme for lecturers was to be left out of the new Teachers pension fund formed by the Teachers' (Superannuation) Act 1918. As pension funds affect staff at levels of their career this created pressure the Asscociation to be one which included professors as well.
At a conference in Bristol 27-28 June 1919 professorial delegates were present. The name of the new Association was left until all other matters were decided. The draft rules circulated at the conference read "The name of the society shall be... (to be decided at a later date)". This was to be repeated nearly a century later when delegates to the 2005 AUT council were presented with a draft rulebook for the merger with NATFHE which stated: "The name of the union shall be [insert name]". Speaking from the chair Laurie pointed out that "the idea which brought the Association into being was of a trade union character, but expressed the hope that, when material conditions had been satisfactorily improved, educational matters generally would form the essential points on which discussion would take place".
In the end it was agreed that the new association's objectives would be"the advancement of University Education and Research and the promotion of common action among University teachers in connection therewith" with membership open to professors. Finally the name Association of University Teachers was voted for nem con (no votes against but some abstentions) and Douglas Laurie was elected as the first President.
It is interesting to speculate how the Association would have developed if professors had been excluded from membership and it was set up on a basis of represting solely the junior staff.
The Association's structure was a federation of Local Associations (branches) which elected delegates to a Central Council. The Council delegates then elected an Executive Committee. The Council itself met twice a year.
An amateur professional body 1919-1939
The war and reconstruction, 1939-1954
A professional professional association 1954-1969
Industrial action against new pay structures 2004 In March 2004, AUT members took industrial action over the proposed new pay structures (the Framework Agreement) offered by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). The original proposals from UCEA would have meant large reductions in income due to smaller annual increments. The action involved a one-day national strike and one-day strikes in each of the four countries of the UK, followed by an assessment boycott that threatened to derail examinations that summer. The industrial action lasted 25 days before UCEA gave in and agreed to many of the union's demands. The agreement included the so called Memorandum of Understanding which provided certain safeguards on the way the new pay structures were to be implemented in pre 1992 universities. However the agreement did not cover post 1992 universities.
The Boycott on Israeli universities 2005 On April 22 2005, the AUT Council voted to boycott two Israeli universities: Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University. The motions[5] to AUT Council were prompted by the call for a boycott from Palestinian academics and others. The AUT Council voted to boycott Bar-Ilan because it runs courses at colleges in the occupied West Bank (referring to Ariel College) and "is thus directly involved with the occupation of Palestinian territories contrary to United Nations resolutions". It boycotted Haifa because it was alledged that the university has wrongly disciplined a lecturer. The action against the lecture was supposedly for supporting a student who wrote about attacks on Palestinians during the founding of the state of Israel (despite the fact that the student's research had been proved false in court and the University denied having disciplined the lecturer [6]). The boycott, which was not compulsory, was set to last until Haifa "ceases its victimisation of academic staff and students who seek to research and discuss the history of the founding of the state of Israel,". 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A boycott is an action undertaken to abstain from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organisation as an expression of protest or as a means of coercion. ...
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Bar-Ilan University (BIU, ××•× ×™×‘×¨×¡×™×˜×ª בר-×ילן) is a university in Ramat Gan, Israel. ...
City logo Ariel (Hebrew:×רי×ל) is an Israeli settlement located in the northern West Bank. ...
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The AUT's decision was immediately condemned by Jewish groups who noted that the AUT leadership cut short debate over the issue citing a lack of time. The Jerusalem Post accused the AUT of purposely holding the vote during Passover, when many Jewish members could not be present. Israel's embassy in London issued a statement criticizing the AUT's vote as a "distorted decision that ignores the British public's opinion", and condemning the resolutions for being "as perverse in their content as in the way they were debated and adopted." The embassy also noted that "[t]he last time that Jews were boycotted in universities was in 1930s Germany." Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement condemning the "misguided and ill-timed decision to boycott academics from the only country in the Middle East where universities enjoy political independence." The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli newspaper in the English language. ...
Passover (Hebrew: פסח; transliterated as Pesach or Pesah), also called חג המצות (Chag HaMatzot - Festival of Matzot) is a Jewish holiday that always begins on the 15th day of Nisan (on the Hebrew calendar), which falls in the early spring and commemorates the Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt. ...
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The AUT said it voted for the boycott in response to a plea for action by a group of Palestinian academics. It was condemned by the Israeli Embassy, the British Ambessador in Israel, by Jewish Human Rights groups, by al-Quds University[7] in Jerusalem, by the National Postgraduate Committee of the UK[8], and by Universities UK. Al-Quds University (Arabic: جامعه القدس ) is the Arab university in Jerusalem. ...
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Universities UK began life as the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (CVCP) in the nineteenth century when there were informal meetings involving Vice-Chancellors of a number of universities and Principals of university colleges. ...
After the great backlash and condemnation - both internal and external, members of the AUT - headed by Open University lecturer Jon Pike - gathered enough signatures to call a special meeting on the subject. The meeting was held on May 26, 2005, at Friends Meeting House in London. A protest in support of academic freedom and for Peace in the Middle East took place on the lawn outside the meeting [9]. At the meeting the AUT decided to cancel the boycott of both Israeli universities. Reasons cited for the decision were: the damage to acadamic freedom, the hampering of dialogue and peace effort between Israelis and Palestinian, and that boycotting Israel alone would be bigotry. [10] The Open University (OU) is the UKs open learning university, established in 1969. ...
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Merger with NATFHE 2004-2007 Attempts had been ongoing for some time to develop a plan for merger. These however came to nothing. In 2004 both AUT's and NATFHE's conferences voted to "explore ways of achieving maximum unity between the two unions". Initially it was not clear what form this would take - closer collaboration, full merger or something in between. However proposals for a new union which would include all AUT and NATFHE members quickly emerged and proposals to ballot the members were endorsed at the conferences in April and May 2005. On December 2nd 2005 the results of the ballot was announced. The merger was supported by 79.2% of AUT and 95.7% of NATFHE members who voted. The two unions will amalgamate on 1 June 2006, and then enter a transitional year until full operational unity is achieved in June 2007. The new union will be called the University and College Union (UCU).
List of General Secretaries Note that initially AUT in its early days was very much an amateur organisation and only appointed a full time general secretary in 1959 who only gained the title of General Secretary in 1965. - Honorary General Secretary
- 1919-20 Prof. F. Raleigh Batt (secretary)
- 1920-53 Prof. R. Douglas Laurie
- 1953-65 Lord Chorley
- General Secretaries
- 1965-69 Dr K. Urwin (executive secretary 1959-1965)
- 1969-83 Laurie Sapper, LLB
- 1983-93 Diana Warwick
- 1993-2001 David Triesman
- 2001-06 Sally Hunt
Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 16 July 1945) is a Labour member of the House of Lords. ...
David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born 30 October 1943) is a Labour member of the House of Lords. ...
References - Joint AUT-NATFHE press release on merger ballot result
- Key Profession. The History of the Association of University Teachers, Harold Perkin, New York, 1969. Covers the history from the founding through to 1969.
- The Crisis Years, The History of the Association of University Teachers from 1969 to 1983, Geoffrey Stuttard, London, 1992. ISBN 090010712X
Boycott - AUT boycott of Israeli universities (2005) - News and other Articles
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External links - Association of University Teachers official website
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