Higher Education Publications

Student Complaints: NATFHE advice to HE branches (Word doc) September 2005

Hiring Lecturers by the Hour - The case for change in higher education NATFHE research report by Colin Bryson April 2005

Hiring Lecturers by the Hour - The case for change in higher education Executive summary of NATFHE research by Colin Bryson April 2005

NATFHE submission to the Science and Technology Committee enquiry into strategic science provision in English universities (Word doc) January 2005

NATFHE briefing on the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 (Word doc) January 2005

NATFHE response to He Academy consultation: 'Shaping The Academy' (Word doc) January 2005

Towards a Framework of Professional Teaching Standards NATFHE response to UUK consultation (Word document) July 2004

NATFHE response to Admissions to Higher Education Steering Group consultation on fair admissions (Word document) June 2004

NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation on monitoring of the Race Relations Amendment Act (Word document) May 2004

NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation on proposed criteria for degree awarding powers and university title (Word document) December 2003

NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation on e-learning strategy (Word doc) November 2003

NATFHE response to HEFCE Review of research funding (Word doc) November 2003

NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation 2003/36 - Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Word doc) November 2003

NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation on rewarding and developing staff (Word document) October 2003

NATHFE’s response to the joint consultation on the review of research assessment (Word document) October 2003

Work-Life Balance Guidance for Higher Education Institutions July 2003 This JNCHES guidance can be viewed on the UCEA site at www.ucea.ac.uk/work_life_balance.html.

NATFHE response to HEFCE strategic plan 2003-08 (Word document) May 2003

NATFHE response to LSC publication and consultation on 'Funding Adult Learning: technical document' (Word document) May 2003

NATFHE response to the Consultation on 'Golden Hellos' (Word document) April 2003

The Future of Higher Education NATFHE response to the White Paper (Word document) April 2003

Supporting and Rewarding Teaching NATFHE guidance (Word document) March 2003

Partnership for Equality: Action for Higher Education
Joint guidance issued by the higher education unions and employers on all aspects of equality in employment, published by the Equality Challenge Unit and JNCHES. February 2003
Download from ECU website: (pdf version) (text version)

NATFHE claim to the JNCHES post-1992 Working Party March 2003
The need to re-assess the work life balance in post-1992 universities and colleges of higher education

Employed Postgraduates' Charter March 2003 NATFHE information leaflet

Response to The Learning Country - A Paving Document November 2002
A Comprehensive Education and Lifelong Learning Programme to 2010 in Wales

Fixed-Term and Casual Employment October 2002 Guidance to NATFHE Branches on the JNCHES National Casualisation Agreement

Working conditions of temporary (agency) workers
NATFHE response to DTI consultation on proposed European Commission directive (Word document) October 2002

Intellectual Property Rightsin E Learning Programmes
NATFHE advice note (Word document) September 2002

Know Your Post-92 Academic Contract - A presciption for health educators July 2002

NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation on Funding for Wider Participation in HE (Word document) July 2002

Funding for Equality: a NATFHE submission for further and higher education NATFHE Wales Region submission to Welsh Assembly (Word document) July 2002

Consenting Adults in Private - Union and Management Perspectives on Peer Observation of Teaching
NATFHE study (Word document) January 2002

Supply and Demand
NATFHE response to HEFCE 01/62 (Word doc) January 2002

Information on Quality and Standards of Teaching and Learning NATFHE response to HEFCE 01/66 (Word document) December 2001

Lifelong Learning for Academic Staff (Word document)
Paper written for a NIACE seminar on widening participation for staff November 2001

In From The Cold? September 2001
Report of Union Learning Fund Project on part-time teaching, professional development and the Institute of Learning and Teaching

In From The Cold? September 2001
Summary of key findings and recommendations of Union Learning Fund Project on part-time teaching, professional development and the Institute of Learning and Teaching

Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Joint NATFHE/AUT statement on HEFCE 01/45 (Word document) July 2001

Building Capacity for Change: Research in Scholarship of Teaching NATFHE response (Word document) March 2001

Rewarding and Developing Staff in Higher Education February 2001
NATFHE response to HEFCE consultation 00/56

Transparency Review in Higher Education - Branch update November 2000

Foundation degree prospectus: NATFHE briefing
September 2000
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NATFHE guidelines for branches on peer review and observation of teaching
August 2000
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Sex Equality in Higher Education - 30 years after the Equal Pay Act May 2000
Analysis and commentary of NATFHE research using HESA data

Independent Review Panels : Consultation Paper
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Blowing the whistle? A NATFHE guide for staff

Good Practice in Higher Education Governance
A NATFHE survey of governance in the post-92 universities and higher education colleges. 1999

Casualisation and Quality 1999
Study of the issues for quality and research raised by the employment of part-time and fixed-term staff in HE, by Anand Chitnis and Gareth Williams of the Centre for Higher Education Studies

NATFHE's Submission to the Independent Review of HE Pay and Conditions (Bett Committee) 1998

The Lecturer's Job 1997
A survey of conditions of services in 'new' universities and colleges of HE, by Liz Batten and Maria Skinner of Crossbow Research