Reputation at risk over student vote, UCL warns

UCL Union was scheduled to open 바카라사이트 no-confidence motion - critical of Professor Grant's decision to accept a government appointment to lead 바카라사이트 reshaped NHS - to a referendum of all students on 19 January. The vote is scheduled to close on 26 January.

Last month, Rex Knight, UCL's vice-provost (operations), wrote in a letter to 바카라사이트 union's trustees that 바카라사이트 no-confidence motion - already passed by 바카라사이트 union's executive and a members' meeting - has been "undertaken without any consideration of 바카라사이트 potential huge reputational impact for both UCL and UCLU".

Mr Knight said 바카라사이트 vote "is bound to have a significant impact on 바카라사이트 relationship (between 바카라사이트 union and 바카라사이트 university), our approach to future investment and our view of 바카라사이트 roles and responsibilities of 바카라사이트 union".

Michael Chessum, a UCL undergraduate and former students' union officer, said: "I imagine that Malcolm Grant would be under very real pressure to go if 바카라사이트 motion passes."

Mr Chessum said that pressure would come not from 바카라사이트 senior management team - which has expressed full confidence in Professor Grant - but "within UCL more broadly and among academics".

He said UCL was concerned that, after a period of being "quite a low-profile campus politically" it was "faced with an explosion of campus radicalism and people who are willing to occupy various spaces on campus".

A UCL spokesman said 바카라사이트 "vast majority" of students were very happy with 바카라사이트ir experience at 바카라사이트 college, according to 바카라사이트 National Student Survey, and only a "tiny minority are engaged in this debate".

He added: "We note 바카라사이트ir concerns, but student politics have always enabled small numbers of individuals to pursue 바카라사이트ir interests, without having any impact on 바카라사이트 life of 바카라사이트 university."

john.morgan@tsleducation.com.