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“They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers.
Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other–since there are no kings–messages that have become meaningless.
They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.”
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I'm worried about the future of my employer, @OpenUniversity, under its Vice-Chancellor, @PeterHorrocks.
Part one of a series of posts explaining why I think there's about to be another crisis in UK HE. 1/x
Part one of a series of posts explaining why I think there's about to be another crisis in UK HE. 1/x
The most important alarm bell: HoC Education SC, Feb 21st 2018, @PeterHorrocks answers a question about his salary, justifying it thus: "We are going to have to carry out the largest restructuring redundancy programme ever in UK university history" 2/x
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This announcement by @PeterHorrocks didn't surprise me (though the salary context did) because he'd already said to the Guardian in Nov 2017 that he was planning "many, many hundreds of job losses in the university". 3/x
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