The next round of formal national pay negotiations for higher education is scheduled to begin in March.
The last national negotiations resulted in the current three-year pay settlement (covering the period from August 2006 to July 2009), for which the final instalments were a 3% pay increase in May 2008 and a further 5% in October 2008.
The timetable for the next round of talks (involving all five relevant trades unions and the employers' association) has been planned so that negotiations can be completed in good time for implementation from 1 August 2009.
More detailed information on the background and progress with these issues is available here (National Pay Barganing [pdf])