Just to clarify .... that's an extra £25,000.00/ year EACH !!

SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOUR !!

So it is official that College Management has set aside £93,000.00 to cover salary increases to Heads of School and Support Managers this year, whilst lecturing staff are offered 0%.

This is not all, as it is officially confirmed now that the College’s four senior managers have taken an EXTRA £25,000.00, (i.e. 45% per annum increase), and the reasoning offered is that since two managers left June '09 (aka ‘jumped ship’ ), those remaining deserve this increase.

(Note that 7 full time permanent lecturers have left since June 09 without replacement) .... and lecturers are offered 0% !! Budget restraints again, you see !!!
 
When Colleges moved from being under Local Authority control to Self-governing status, one would have thought that some sort of restraint on such self-aggrandisement and money-grabbing, unfair practice was put into place.

It is all a 'right sickener', that's for sure !!

Has Telford staff become submissive to the rotten management you have ?
Battle weiry and still bullied by management?
How many experienced staff have you lost due to management bullying ?
What lies are you being told these days ?
How solvent is Telford ?

Basically the unions failed to get their act together. EIS refused to represent instructors which would have given management a problem, but Unison was willing so problem solved. If you look at what's happened in the sector, you're probably doomed unless you are prepared to strike, which is how Telford EIS managed to fend of a threat to employ agency lecturers a couple of years ago.

How did management start using "instructors" as cheap replacements for lecturers? How did they get away with it? We don't have any instructors but we do have learning assistants. I'm concerned because by next year ALL teaching materials have to be on our VLE. Will management then decide to go for cheaper staff delivering lessons?

Well, you could be right. Still think the board and senior management should be sacked without any golden payoffs or bonuses.

We are all too busy to fight maybe thats their game!

Keep fighting this lousy management.

Nope, just fed up !!

Your are all very quite these days

I am sure if people could find a computer and a desk they would be complaining here.

7+ years of Utter Mismangement. A thousand years of experience lost due to mismanagement bullying and sickening staff.

When will the government investigate the mismanagement of Edinburgh's Telford College ?

Is there anyone left out there?

Moan, whine complain, dont you just love the sound of a new year starting.

Feeling squeezed !!

Start of term looming and new staff area desk-plans in place. It all seemed a reasonable idea in June when staff were advised that areas were to be allocated to identifiable sections.

Regret that management seem to have allowed an 'I'm alright Jack' culture to prosper over the summer recess regarding space allocations.
 
Only need to look around levels 2 and 3 to see the unfairness with 'fixed-desker' office staff enjoying individual desks surrounded by acres of empty space whilst great numbers of teaching staff, are finding they have been squeezed into unreasonably tiny, 'shared-desk' spaces to organise and prepare teaching materials for the new academic year.

Is it any wonder that teaching staff are pretty angry, feeling frustrated, and undervalued as they are relegated to scrapping for any desk, seat, phone, computer which becomes vacant ?

'Fixed desked' Managers advise they can do nothing !! I foresee trouble ahead !
  
Not such a great start to the new academic year, eh !

With the start of term looming and the need to consider a ‘New Academic Year Resolution’, instead of giving up the usual items such as alcohol, cigarettes, chocolate, and excessive intake of caffeine, I’ve selected one which is both appropriate to the treatment of staff and apparent mismanagement at Telford College over the last several years and is eminently achievable !! …. i.e. hope !!

Hey Sven cool news about taking over the oldest football team in the world.

I don't understand your comments about finances - mine are in perfect order, as are yours I think. You are my hero in being paid for doing zero work. I'm sure you are a finance director's role model. In fact not just zero work, we both provide maximum hype and the team's results get worse with us being there.......