Classics at Royal Holloway under threat
“Slasher vice-chancellors tend to use the same tactic to get their way. First they announce some departmental massacre … all the jobs in the Sociology Department are to go; there will be two positions in the History Department that the 30 Sociologists can compete for, the others will be made redundant … oh, and also there is to be no consultation, it is going to the University Council tomorrow. Panic all round, of course, and screams of anguish …” (more)
[Mary Beard, A Don's Life, 30 June]
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