How will UK HE recover from this? Disastrously shortsighted decision-making that is dismantling the very infrastructure of the humanities, and threatening the livelihoods of scholars and teachers who deserve so much better. Senior managers, what are you doing?
'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3
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And this comes after the People and Money fiasco (although - this is still ongoing... it still doesn't work properly!). The same management team were in charge of that, too. But never any mention of overspending on rubbish database software when it comes to rising costs. www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...