UCU Scotland Congress 2012

Friday 23 March 2012
9.00am - 3pm
Edinburgh

Guest speaker

Michael Russell, cabinet secretary for education.

Following his address the Cabinet Secretary welcomes governance review report with the president's of NUS and UCU Scotland

Presidential address

Gordon Watson, president of UCU welcomed delegates to 6 annual congress of UCU Scotland

In the  UCU Scotland President's address 2012 [37kb] he called for more to be done to give access to university for those from the most deprived schools.

He also covered a number of other issues affecting staff in our universities:

• governance
• casualisation
• research assessment
• immigration
• fees
• pensions and
• funding for universities.

Resolutions

The  Resolutions from UCU Scotland Congress 2012 [168kb] form policy for the year ahead.