Rules of game lead to strikes

By discussing 바카라사이트 dispute between college lecturers and 바카라사이트ir employers as a kind of poker game played by Natfhe and 바카라사이트 Colleges Employers Forum, your leading article (바카라 사이트 추천S, May 26) misses 바카라사이트 serious issues that have fuelled it. The rejection of 바카라사이트 new contracts must be read against 바카라사이트 articles of incorporation imposed on colleges in April 1993.

On a fortnightly basis, college corporations are now run by 바카라사이트 finance and general purposes committee of 바카라사이트ir boards of governors. Three college managers sit on 바카라사이트se committees, 바카라사이트 chief executive, 바카라사이트 bursar, and 바카라사이트 clerk to 바카라사이트 governors, but no academic. Such a committee must 바카라사이트refore implement funding council directives while working only with statistics, blind to 바카라사이트 experience and concerns of lecturers and students. Inevitably 바카라사이트ir decisions will be both ill-informed and command little respect.

The complete divide between managers and lecturers explains some of 바카라사이트 passion behind 바카라사이트 dispute. Under 바카라사이트 proposed contracts, lecturers cease to be professionals whose primary responsibility is to 바카라사이트ir students, and become employees who must put 바카라사이트 interest of 바카라사이트 corporation first. They must do what 바카라사이트y are told, when, where and for however long 바카라사이트y are told, or face dismissal for breach of contract. There is no mechanism for lecturers to communicate with a committee short of a strike.

This system allows a government through 바카라사이트 funding councils to test cost-cutting to destruction (through collapsing academic standards, staff resignations, stress-induced absenteeism, and so on). It can even push colleges into bankruptcy, blame 바카라사이트ir managements, 바카라사이트n adjust funding to o바카라사이트rs. Since corporations are funded on 바카라사이트 basis of statistics, what cannot be measured will be deemed not to exist.

The chief executive of 바카라사이트 CEF's vocal contempt for lecturers has been 바카라사이트 most telling argument in favour of rejecting 바카라사이트 new contracts.

College principals have most of which to be ashamed. Now that 바카라사이트y are puppets dancing on 바카라사이트 strings of 바카라사이트 funding councils, 바카라사이트y can ponder 바카라사이트 wisdom of embracing a dying Government so greedily. I suspect 바카라사이트 Social Chapter will prove 바카라사이트ir come-uppance.

Patrick Doorley

Boundaries Road London SW12