Bonfire of casual contracts ‘a huge setback’ for racial equality

And of course it is the universities who do the virtue signalling to everybody else. Perhaps they should get their own house in order first. Oh and there are plenty of people who speak English well, the university sector does not have to respond by bringing in those set up to fail.

It would be good to know something of the criteria used to distinguish which programmes to keep and which to trim back or cut outright. Are programmes on the chopping those that draw in the fewest students? Or the fewest students paying the highest fees? Are there any criteria other than contractual obligations at work here? Meanwhile, we have all speculated about the implosion of the academic bubble. Surely covid has moved that process along. But is the implosion going to first take out lecturers on casual contracts and spare the administrative staff? With administrative bloat over the last 30 years adding lots of overhead, one has to wonder when administration might share some of the burden of downsizing.