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Friday 3 October 2014

Warwick University PLC

It's hardly a secret that the management of Warwick University have returned to what is more or less the founding creed of the institution, divide, rule and suppress dissent. If you thought that universities were islands of free expression in a world of corporate bullshit think again. Dennis Hayes explains here. And make sure you control that subversive body language.

What surprises me is how little we've heard from Warwick faculty about all of this. Has the university imposed a campus wide gagging order? Or is fear enough?

So who is going to win? Macho management or common sense? Let's give Sparks the last word.
Posted by Colin at 09:46

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have you seen this? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/thomas-docherty-to-be-cleared-of-all-charges-by-warwick/2016510.article

21 October 2014 at 07:37

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