{"id":27,"date":"2021-05-07T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:36:10","slug":"campus-in-the-pandemic-pay-offers-and-what-will-the-queen-say-about-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/2021\/05\/07\/campus-in-the-pandemic-pay-offers-and-what-will-the-queen-say-about-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus in the pandemic, pay offers and what will the Queen say about education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COVID<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the government has not yet announced when universities will be allowed to re-open their campuses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/releases\/coronavirusandhighereducationstudentsengland12aprilto19april2021\">new data<\/a> from the Office for National Statistics suggests that 80% of students are now living where they go to university.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there is some pressure on universities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/uk-universities-urged-cover-indian-student-quarantine-costs?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=editorial_daily\">cover the cost of quarantine<\/a> for students from India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FINANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UCU has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucu\/status\/1390371098458525698\">tweeted<\/a> that it will reject the pay offer likely to emerge from the annual negotiating process, stating that the risks staff have been asked to take render a 1.5% offer unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SECTOR NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons Library has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/lordslibrary.parliament.uk\/queens-speech-2021-education\/\">briefing<\/a> on the educational issues likely to be addressed in the Queen\u2019s Speech on 11 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID Although the government has not yet announced when universities will be allowed to re-open their campuses, new data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that 80% of students are now living where they go to university. Meanwhile, there...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}