ILT joining incentive?

Given that the government's initial investment in the Institute for Learning and Teaching was on the assumption it would become a body largely funded by membership fees and given that it has attracted only 1 per cent of its target, could the recent teaching awards (People, THES, June 23) be described as "inducements" to overworked, underpaid HE lecturers to join the august institute?

Gillian Howie

University of Liverpool