@21group.bsky.social
A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialIt's the British disease
Senior leadership means never having to face the consequences
Not just in devastated universities like Nottingham
It's everywhere in the UK, the Post Office, NHS, Civil Service
Those responsible are never held accountable
@21group.bsky.socialCardiff University under Wendy Larner
Research time cut from 600 to 315 hours per academic annually
Wales already receives a disproportionately small share of UK research funding
Larner is making it worse
@21group.bsky.socialIt's the British disease
Senior leadership means never having to face the consequences
Not just in devastated universities like Nottingham
It's everywhere in the UK, the Post Office, NHS, Civil Service
Those responsible are never held accountable
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialProblems intensify for Cambridge University Alongside Arday reviews, there is a review into Human Resources, prompted by loss of 'Cambridge Whistleblowing' Tribunal Panel is full of University insiders -- former VC, ex-heads of UCAS & UCEA, an HR executive No staff or union representative
@21group.bsky.socialWhat has happened to Nottingham University is a huge scandal Those responsible have moved onwards & upwards There's no accountability for senior management in UK Higher Education Mistakes are rewarded, cost is borne by the victims through job losses
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialEdinburgh University Vice Chancellor to step down
Edinburgh will use recruitment agency to search for new VC
Agency approaches & puts forward the same kinds of candidates again & again
New VC will be the same as the old VC, other than the name
No change
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialAn entitled & over-paid senior management team destroyed a University with property mismanagement
Modern Languages, Music and American & Canadian Studies are closed down at Nottingham
Very sad for all the staff losing their jobs
@21group.bsky.socialProblems intensify for Cambridge University Alongside Arday reviews, there is a review into Human Resources, prompted by loss of 'Cambridge Whistleblowing' Tribunal Panel is full of University insiders -- former VC, ex-heads of UCAS & UCEA, an HR executive No staff or union representative
@21group.bsky.socialEdinburgh University Vice Chancellor to step down
Edinburgh will use recruitment agency to search for new VC
Agency approaches & puts forward the same kinds of candidates again & again
New VC will be the same as the old VC, other than the name
No change
@21group.bsky.socialAn entitled & over-paid senior management team destroyed a University with property mismanagement
Modern Languages, Music and American & Canadian Studies are closed down at Nottingham
Very sad for all the staff losing their jobs
@21group.bsky.social£12m cut from university creative & performing arts courses
Arts & education leaders are now calling on Education Secretary Lucy Powell to reverse it
You can't back the creative industries while cutting the courses that train their future workforce
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialCornell announces "independent" review
The University review playbook is
1 Appoint trusty apparatchiks
2 Set restricted Terms of Reference
3 Examine "processes” while avoiding accountability
4 Publish selected extracts, burying awkward findings
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialCall for greater openness to change by the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Prof Deborah Prentice ...
... who engaged in whistleblowing retaliation & has not yet found the time to apologize
She's set up a committee to reflect on the judgement
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialCrisis at Nottingham University has been worsened by senior-management financial decisions
Staff & students pay the price -- but not the previous Vice Chancellor who precipitated the disaster
Shearer West is now VC at Leeds
@21group.bsky.socialCornell announces "independent" review
The University review playbook is
1 Appoint trusty apparatchiks
2 Set restricted Terms of Reference
3 Examine "processes” while avoiding accountability
4 Publish selected extracts, burying awkward findings
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.social"Our administration needs to change, it needs to change drastically & it needs to change fast," one student told the BBC
Cornell student shows more understanding than any University administrator
It's change, not PR, needed at Cornell -- and elsewhere!
@21group.bsky.socialReposted by @21group.bsky.socialCambridge University has set up a committee to investigate its HR processes
Three representatives of university management sit on it -- but no one represents employees or has experience investigating institutional retaliation
Gloss over or whitewash?
@21group.bsky.socialCrisis at Nottingham University has been worsened by senior-management financial decisions
Staff & students pay the price -- but not the previous Vice Chancellor who precipitated the disaster
Shearer West is now VC at Leeds
@21group.bsky.social"Our administration needs to change, it needs to change drastically & it needs to change fast," one student told the BBC
Cornell student shows more understanding than any University administrator
It's change, not PR, needed at Cornell -- and elsewhere!
@21group.bsky.socialCambridge University has set up a committee to investigate its HR processes
Three representatives of university management sit on it -- but no one represents employees or has experience investigating institutional retaliation
Gloss over or whitewash?
