tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post3712319711204908914..comments2024-02-16T08:32:46.618+00:00Comments on Donald Clark Plan B: University of Cumbria: the perfect stormDonald Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-25213126360434600262010-11-30T11:59:47.198+00:002010-11-30T11:59:47.198+00:00The analogy isn't quite right. Businesses have...The analogy isn't quite right. Businesses have to prove, through audit, that they are a going concern, or by law they have to go into liquidation. Any business that was closed for large parts of the year and went on an unsustainable building spree would disappear fast. At the very least the management team would be swapped out and cuts made. In this sense there is no analogy.<br />However, you do have a point about fluctuations in fortune and carrying deficits. In Cumbria's case the deficit is so large that it is hard to see how it can be recovered in any sensible timescale. Why should the taxpayer, and other Universities (from HEFCE funds) bail out the profligacy of such a badly run organisation. Are we saying that any University should be allowed to overspend to any degree and just get 'rescued'? And if the reply is 'We did that for the banks' then I disagree with that as well.Donald Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-42648141159078449632010-11-30T05:23:13.488+00:002010-11-30T05:23:13.488+00:00There are businesses who go through good and bad c...There are businesses who go through good and bad cycles of management. Is no reason why universities should not follow the same pattern. The end result usually is a stronger organization as reorganization, house cleaning and scrutiny create a healthier entity. we learn from our mistakes. I have faith that U of Cumbria will recover and serve the constituency it was created to serve. The elitests think it should not survive. That means that alot of students will not get the education that they can afford and the economy of cumbria will be impacted.Lowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09370816004867925569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-48519542906853031582010-10-16T11:18:21.454+00:002010-10-16T11:18:21.454+00:00Univercity of CUmbria deserve to survıve ıts curre...Univercity of CUmbria deserve to survıve ıts current Furthermore It is more tahn a unıversıty<br /><br />I loved this sentence. There's a spelling error in first word, capitalisation error in the second, missing letter in the third, more capitalisation errors, another spelling error and the entire statement (can't really call it a sentence) is a grammatical nightmare. Is this reason enough to let this University die?Donald Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-11341663663144933552010-10-16T01:07:30.999+00:002010-10-16T01:07:30.999+00:00Univercity of CUmbria deserve to survıve ıts curre...Univercity of CUmbria deserve to survıve ıts current Furthermore It is more tahn a unıversıtyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-83554735925850386282010-05-31T22:47:06.036+00:002010-05-31T22:47:06.036+00:00The "new" Vice Chancellor left suddenly ...The "new" Vice Chancellor left suddenly a couple of weeks ago.<br />It seems even he couldn't cope with the clique that is the board of governors and the existing senior staff.<br />The University of Cumbria probably doesn't deserve to survive its current, self inflicted, crisis.<br />You're quite right, it should never have been called a university - it's a professional training institution, which is a good an honourable thing to be.<br />Unfortunately, the board and senior staff had delusions of adequacy and ideas above their station and started considering themselves "academics".<br />Funnily, Cumbria's main campus is in the same town as a proper university - Lancaster. In comparison, Cumbria is a joke.<br />A perfect storm indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-51851342854963383462010-05-05T14:05:21.817+00:002010-05-05T14:05:21.817+00:00Cumbria's v-c's research area is "cha...Cumbria's v-c's research area is "change management". And they say satire is dead...Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647405720597546140noreply@blogger.com