Tuesday 28 July 2009

How modern education works

We're not a university, we have an 'academic business model'.
We're not sacking people, we're instituting 'impending efficiency savings'.

Of course, given the current economic climate, we could have made the decision to freeze an Executive post and make the savings. We did consider that but felt, and Governors agreed, that the new post was necessary to help us work more effectively in the new economic climate.

This last, of course, means that teachers, technicians, porters, academic support staff and the like who are going to be dumped overboard can just go fuck themselves, if the alternative is to reduce the troughers in sharp suits who 'manage' us. 'Manage', in this context, means 'sink us with a minimum debt of £5.5 million, possibly rising to £10-12 million'. Way to go, you selfish, greedy bastards.

1 comment:

Sue said...

I hate institutions using weasel words for cut-backs. It is always the people providing the service, and doing a good job that suffer – not the bean counters and paper shufflers.