Anger over Birmingham’s crisis switch to ‘generic mega-modules’

Institution’s efforts to make teaching more coronavirus-resilient could mean research-led teaching is ‘jettisoned’, critics claim

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June 18, 2020
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June 19, 2020
Jack Grove
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Reader's comments (3)

#1 Submitted by k.s.... on June 18, 2020 - 10:05am
It really shows how out of touch and incompetent senior management are in UK Universities, they do not have a clue about the interaction of students and their lecturers or how to handle a crisis. They are trying to save money on the front line when they should be slashing the non-front line managerial and bureaucratic jobs that have infected UK universities. These jobs are basically overpaid and actually hinder research and teaching on the front line by making academics waste their time going to their stupid meetings and fill their silly forms that no one reads apart from the bureaucrats.
#2 Submitted by msl_csp on June 18, 2020 - 10:25am
Very true!
#3 Submitted by ... on June 18, 2020 - 11:23am
I don't see it as evidence for incompetence. Rather, I think it is a calculated step towards permitting them to remove teaching staff since more teaching can be replaced by others. UoM has had a series of financial difficulties and redundancies that has now been exacerbated by the covid lockdown. The management is simply paving the way to make more redundancies. It is a calculated move and not incompetence. Higher management is always self-serving - they always think they are more essential than everyone else - teaching, professional services, porters, cleaners are always the first to go - you never hear VCs, Deputy VCs or Pro VCs being fired due to lockdown do you? lol

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