CONTACT INFORMATIONNATFHE Northern Ireland Office REGIONAL OFFICIAL, NORTHERN IRELAND REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR Click here for resources archive of agreements, contracts, procedures, circulars, LNC reports etc at the bottom of this page. You can also check out past issues of Northern Ireland News.
15 May 2006 College lecturers vote for industrial actionFurther education college lecturers in Northern Ireland have voted to take industrial action in a long running dispute over pay. NATFHE organised a ballot following a failure by the colleges to honour agreements made as far back as 2001 to bring lecturers pay up to the same level as that for schoolteachers. A massive 78% of NATFHE members, who took part in the ballot, voted in favour of strike action and 89% voted in favour of actions short of strike. Three one-day strikes have been planned along with other continuous disruptive action which will hit the working of colleges. Press release
Strike ballot opens at sixteen collegesLecturers in Northern Ireland’s sixteen further education colleges are being balloted on industrial action for the second time in just over a year. Lecturers are angry over the failure of the colleges to honour promises to raise their pay to the level of schoolteachers in Northern Ireland. In 2001, and again in 2004, the employers (College Employers Forum) agreed to put in place pay arrangements for an upper pay spine similar to that awarded to schoolteachers but these have never been implemented. Press release 7 April 2006 PPRS leads to breakdown in trustMisunderstandings and shortcomings in the operation of the principal's performance related pay scheme (PPRS) which lead to a serious and potentially damaging breakdown in trust between DEL and colleges have been highlighted in a recent report. The report looked at the first two years of operation of the scheme in colleges of further education in Northern Ireland. The report by David Kissman Associates was commissioned by The Department for Employment and Learning and was published in February 2006. See report 2 March 2006 LNC report 24 February 2006
See report 6 January 2006 Pay parity with schoolteachersNATFHE has just produced a succinct analyisis of the case for pay parity with schoolteachers for FE lecturers in Northern Ireland, including projected costings for implementing parity. See document 14 September 2005 NATFHE express grave concerns over draft code of practiceNATHFE's Northern Ireland regional official Jim McKeown has written to the Department of Employment and Learning expressing grave concerns over the draft code of practice on industrial ballots and notice to employers. See letter
6 September 2005 DEL to plough ahead with mergersThe Department of Employment and Learning have announced that they are to go ahead with a major restructuring of Northern Ireland’s further education sector. Mergers and amalgamations will be imposed on every college in Northern Ireland over the next two years. See press release
17 December 2004 Website consultationsClick on NATFHE comment on Higher Education in Northern Ireland (Word doc).
17 June 2004 Will DEL's Strategy for FE Deliver?The intentions of the Department for Employment and Learning’s Strategy Document Further Education Means Business for People, Communities and the Economy in Northern Ireland are welcomed by NATFHE, but the union questions whether the actions proposed in the strategy document will deliver. For more information see the full text of the NATFHE comment on the Strategy Document (Word doc). Northern Ireland News September 2005 (pdf file)
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