Thousands back professor fired for missing grant income targets

This is just one among many horror stories we know of in the university sector regarding the disingenuous destructive behaviour that is characteristic of the insidious cut of managerialism, which is hollowing them out on grounds that are no more veracious then acupuncture or homeopathy quackery. Fortunately, the latter two have been booted out of the NHS. One day it will be the turn for managerialism, but not before more dreadful things are done to good academics who failed to tick an arbitrary box added by these money grubbing bonus counting cultists.

It is totally sick. How do these managers look at themselves in the mirror each morning and not weep with disgust?

The use of metrics to measure the unmeasurable is always going to be shaky, but to set them up to measure something entirely unrelated to the core aim is the very definition of insanity.

Grants are needed by SOME academics to pursue SOME kinds of research. That they have become an end in themselves speaks volumes about the sorry state of UK's higher education. The University of Salford' Vice Chancellor should resign for bringing the sector into disrepute. Instead, no doubt she'll be given a bonus for sacking somebody after 30 years of service. What a disgrace these people are...

Grants are needed by SOME academics to pursue SOME kinds of research. That they have become an end in themselves speaks volumes about the sorry state of UK's higher education. The University of Salford' Vice Chancellor should resign for bringing the sector into disrepute. Instead, no doubt she'll be given a bonus for sacking somebody after 30 years of service. What a disgrace these people are...

Rather depressing but now just standard operating conditions for academic institutions. Nothing good can really come from the producers of product, or as it were galley slaves, being assessed by a parasitic managers whose own annual targets are simply concerned with setting the drum beat and tossing people overboard. Perhaps if we were to reduce their slice of our grant income from 50% to say 30% we might see some changes.