Your local University and College Union (UCU) branch at Queen Mary, University of London
On 29 May, Queen Mary UCU held a General Meeting to discuss the ongoing threat of redundancies and imposed performance management. There was a record turnout. The following motions were … Continue reading QM UCU GM votes for a strike ballot
David Bignell, emeritus professor of zoology at QM, has a compelling op-ed piece in this week’s Times Higher. An excerpt: Will restructuring work? Everybody except modern managers knows a good … Continue reading SBCS: Madness of Metrics
The School of Medicine and Dentistry restructuring again makes headlines in the Times Higher Education magazine. Referring also to the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences it focuses on the … Continue reading THE on SMD and SBCS – again
A report in today’s Times Higher Education focuses on the restructuring in SBCS (and also mentions SMD). You can read it here. Academics at Queen Mary, University of London, have … Continue reading THE on QM Restructuring
Here is another editorial from The Lancet (vol. 379, 7 April 2012, p.1284) on the situation in QM’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, deriding the “scandalous, risible, disgraceful, and iniquitous … Continue reading More from the Lancet on SMD
Having learned more about the incredibly destructive “restructuring” of Queen Mary, Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet has this to say: Queen Mary recently joined the Russell Group of … Continue reading “University Leaders are Destroying QM”
As QM management cuts a swathe through our School of Medicine and Dentistry, news of the crude, bullying and self-defeating tactics being used against staff is reaching the outside world. … Continue reading Bullying at Barts
In response to many protests from staff, students and UCU, the Head of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences has issued amended proposals for the restructuring of the School. … Continue reading SBCS Proposals Redux
