This policy statement sets-out the rules covering the payment of subscriptions to professional and other bodies and applies to all academic and non-academic staff employed by the University.

 

There are two categories of subscriptions:-

 

 

 

The policy for payment of subscriptions is as follows:-

 

 

Where the University has a corporate subscription to a body such as the Arts and Humanities Research Board, London Universities Purchasing Consortium etc, the cost of this will be borne by the School or department which has taken out the subscription from existing School or departmental budgets.

 

Corporate subscriptions are defined under this policy as those where the membership or affiliation is open to all staff in an area within the University or the membership can be proved to be in the beneficial interest of the University as a corporate body and not selected individuals.

 

 

Where individual members of staff pay a subscription to a professional body or organisation in their own name (for example the Association of University Administrators, Institute of Personnel Managers, British Computer Society etc) the University will not meet the cost of these subscriptions and any claims for payment will be rejected. Staff who ignore this rule may be subject to disciplinary action.

 

Staff may be eligible for tax relief on the cost of individual subscriptions by declaring the subscription as a permitted expense. Further advice on tax relief is available from the Inland Revenue.

 

The only exception to this rule is the limited exemption for those academic staff who are required to hold accreditation from the Higher Education Academy in order to teach at the University. In these instances only, the cost of individual membership will be met by the University from a fund managed by the Vice-Chancellor.