The School is prepared to consider applications from members of the staff for short leave for academic or other purposes. For further information, please contact your HR Adviser key contacts.
Entitlement and Salary
Short Leave can be granted to a member of the academic staff for any period not exceeding four weeks during term time without reduction of salary or allowances. Applications for short leave periods not exceeding one week should be made to the Head of Department, who has authority to grant it.
Heads of Department are requested to inform Human Resources, in writing of all the cases of short leave which they have granted.
Short Leave and Calculation of Sabbatical leave
The regulations for sabbatical leave expect that time spent on short leave will not count as service in calculating entitlement to sabbatical. In view of the odd ractions/percentages that strict application of the regulation in question can cause we tend to disregard the regulation except in cases where the individual has had an unusual amount of short leave.
Application Process
All applications for leave are considered on an individual basis. Applications must be made on the form available from the HR. The member of staff should complete the relevant part of the form and send it to the Head of Department and (if relevant) to the Head of the Centre or Institute concerned.
The Head of Department will complete the section of the form relating to the implications for departmental resources, and will make a recommendation. The case will then be considered by the Appointments Committee, which is responsible for ensuring that the standard of work in the School will not suffer as a result of the proposed arrangements, and will take into account the total amount of leave granted to members of the Department concerned.
If the request is approved, the papers will be passed to the APRC, which is responsible for the allocation of resources.
The School is prepared to consider applications from members of the staff for short leave for academic or other purposes.