The Office for Students has issued another warning to the HE sector in England, this time in relation to a sharp rise in the number of unconditional offers being made to prospective students.
Safeguarding in sport has become an increasingly prominent issue following the recent high profile prosecution of coaches in a range of disciplines for historic sexual offences.
The university sector has high debts and faces increasing commercial pressure, potential falls in student numbers and a possible reduction in tuition fees. At the same time, it seems that government bail outs will end.
In this article we have selected a few of the significant cases and proposed employment law changes which will affect many employers but will be of particular interest to HEIs.
The decision of the Court of Appeal on liability in the Morrisons case could impact on universities faced with data breach/misuse of private information claims, as a result of an employee’s actions.
Many people were surprised when the Court of Appeal decided that Morrisons was liable when a rogue employee, on a frolic of his own, deliberately leaked personal data.
On 15 January 2019 the government published a consultation paper on proposed increases in employer contributions to the TPS with a stated aim of ensuring "all affected sectors have an opportunity to share views on the impact these changes will bring".
The Scottish Employment Appeal Tribunal recently confirmed that "the causal connection between the something that causes unfavourable treatment and the disability may involve several links depending on the facts of a particular case".
In October 2018, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) published guidance on the creation of student disciplinary procedures and handling individual cases.
The HE sector is currently facing many strategic HR challenges and HEIs are looking at how they can achieve desired outcomes effectively in shorter timescales whilst still being legally robust.
Universities UK has called on the government to reintroduce an immigration category permitting international students to stay in the UK to work for up to two years after graduating.
