GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

you are back here by a quarter to, so I will give you the best part of half an

hour.

The meeting adjourned for tea

THE PRESIDENT: Let’s reconvene. Thank you all. Before we start I would like to

welcome a new member of staff for the GFTU to the conference. Sally Mitton

sitting next to Claire at the back has very recently joined us as an office support

worker at Quorn. Hi, Sally, you are very welcome.

SALLY MITTON: Thank you.

LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY

THE PRESIDENT: What we are going to have now is a presentation from Peter Slee

and I am going to ask Doug to introduce both Peter and also the purpose of our

growing relationships with the university sector.

THE GENERAL SECRETARY: Thanks, Ben. You will have seen from yesterday’s

fantastic debate on education that we are not just delivering our own new

revised, better, improved, more of it education programme, but we are trying to

create new partnerships and relationships with the university sector which will

be of benefit to the GFTU and to our affiliates. We do not want the university

sector to disappear and service the needs of others, we want the university

sector to widen access, widen participation and give opportunities to our people

and to our unions and you will have seen some of the colleagues yesterday

that we are working with on that. There are many, many things that the

university can still do with us, whether it is research, providing experts in

training courses, validating some of our training, helping us think through some

policy issues and so on, loads of things that can be done with the GFTU and

with individual affiliates. We passed a motion this morning, for example, on

some research for NAPO and that is a dialogue that we will want to have with

the university sector.

I have to say on my visits to the different universities to get them thinking about

what can be done with the movement again we have had one of the warmest

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