Durham v-c moves to clarify plans for online learning

‘The early draft paper’ - love it. Caught in shady company with the wide boys of The Cambridge group- a private for-profit bunch of sharks.

More mendacity from Durham's senior management. Both sets of proposals--the first, clearly issued as a panic measure right before the long Easter weekend, and the second, hurriedly revised to respond to widespread criticism of the initial proposals--obviously conflated short-term contingency planning and long-term structural changes to Durham's educational offer. At no point has there been open, transparent, and "widespread" consultation of either students or staff. That is why Durham staff wrote and circulated two letters, each of them garnering more than 400 signatures, protesting against not only the content of the proposals but also the way they were unevenly distributed and consulted on. That is also why over 1,000 Durham students and offer holders submitted a petition to Durham's senate protesting against the proposals. Senior management have been forced onto the back foot, as is apparent from Corbridge's attempt at media management here.