A pilot to reduce workload

09 / 12 / 2020 | Michaela Nesvarova

In order to reduce workload of UT employees, the University Council (UC) sees the need to review policy from a ‘workload aware perspective’. They will start with a pilot to define a procedure for such an evaluation. This was agreed during the UC meeting today.

‘Universities, including the University of Twente, do not have a tradition of capacity management nor policy making from a workload aware perspective, but wellbeing surveys indicate that it is necessary to take workload effects seriously,’ writes the Council in its letter to the Executive Board.

That is why the UC aims to ‘start a pilot in order to develop a way of working that contributes in assessing, controlling and/or reducing workload and, in general, improve wellbeing’. This morning, the Council and the Board agreed to set up a working group that will prepare the pilot. The group, which should consist of UC members including students, should be formed by the end of the year.

Four candidates have applied for the two available seats on the University Council. They are Jacqueline Weppelman on behalf of 'List Weppelman' and PhD candidate Anton Atanasov on behalf of 'List P-NUT'. Campus Coalition brings forward Joyce Karreman and Emile Dopheide. Who are they and why do they want to be in the Council?

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Crisis of niet, de verkiezingen voor de universiteitsraad staan volgende week op het programma. Dit jaar hebben studenten de keuze uit vier partijen voor een zetel in de universiteitspolitiek. In deze miniserie stellen de lijsttrekkers hun partijen omstebeurt voor. Deze vierde en laatste aflevering: Jorg Wellink van de nieuwe partij uTOP.