Bullying and perceived barriers to promotion
Summary of the UCU Survey Report
The survey of 631 black UCU union members working in post-16 education has found that a large majority of respondents reported that they felt they had faced barriers to promotion. Nine out of ten (90%) across further and higher education reported that this had often, or sometimes, been the case for them.
Half (50%) of all respondents across both sectors reported that they had not been fully informed of the process of applying for promotion. Three-fifths (59%) across both sectors reported that senior colleagues and managers had not supported them in seeking to progress their career. Just over half of respondents (52%) did not see a positive future for their career with their
current employer.
The survey also indicated that seven out of ten respondents (71%) in post-16 education said they were ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ subject to bullying and harassment from managers. The percentage was slightly larger in higher education (72%) than in further education (68%).
