Just in from the irony desk, news of a 1.8 per cent administrative pay-rise to be paid by management in December, which recognises the last salary increase under the existing agreement was October ‘17 and the new enterprise deal is not done, even though it should be shortly. No, it’s not a slow-moving university, it’s an announcement yesterday to staff of the National Tertiary Education Union by new general secretary Matthew McGowan. The union pushes universities to pay agreed salary increases every 12 months