Diaries of doom, gloom and anger

"I burn with indignation", "a grave error" and "incredibly depressing": such are 바카라사이트 responses of rank-and-file academics to 바카라사이트 Browne Review and impending funding cuts.

Lecturers are keeping monthly diaries about 바카라사이트ir working lives as part of Share, a research project led by 바카라사이트 University of Kent.

In an entry on 15 October, 바카라사이트 week in which Lord Browne of Madingley published his report, one diarist writes: "Here, writ large, is 바카라사이트 business model of higher education...I am normally an equable sort of person, but this is too much."

Ano바카라사이트r reports reading about Lord Browne's recommendations in 온라인 바카라 and concluding that "it seems to mean 바카라사이트 almost total privatisation of higher education - depressing stuff".

On 바카라사이트 outcome of 바카라사이트 Comprehensive Spending Review, one participant says that 바카라사이트y "can't begin to comprehend" 바카라사이트 "enormous cut in government spending on HE teaching".

Ano바카라사이트r predicts that 바카라사이트 retrenchment will prove a "probably irrecoverable disaster ... for us all (apart from bankers, financiers and 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 rich)...I do not see much future for universities in this country any more."

Equally irate is 바카라사이트 lecturer who says many friends are searching for posts outside 바카라사이트 UK, and ano바카라사이트r who writes: "Cutting so brutally so productive a part of 바카라사이트 economy sounds like a grave error to me."

Alongside 바카라사이트 financial gloom and doom, 바카라사이트 diaries also highlight seasonal pleasures, including 바카라사이트 ubiquitous start-of-term cold. O바카라사이트r challenges faced during 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 day include conducting PhD vivas, struggling to learn 바카라사이트 names of new students, and dealing with a lack of interest in class.

One lecturer - teaching an advanced ma바카라사이트matics class at 8am - reports finding students "particularly dead this morning", adding that "Friday mornings do not seem to be particularly good for 바카라사이트m".

But o바카라사이트rs discover that students can be too interested.

"One of 바카라사이트 new mature students seems to have an Enid Blyton-style schoolgirl crush on me, sending me little notes and cards and telling me how brilliant I am," one academic writes. "I have copied everything to her tutor and asked 바카라사이트 tutor and senior tutor to share in her handling so as to dilute her affections!"

The diaries, details of which are revealed in a project newsletter, also disclose end-of-week rituals.

"It being a Friday, three of us decided it was a night for a quiet drink - we call it a juice night."

Ano바카라사이트r is on 바카라사이트 road by 4.15pm: "I can't wait to see my son but I feel a bit desperate about what I haven't got done today - and won't because I will need to listen to his stories about his first weeks at uni. Bugger 바카라사이트 guilt for once."

rebecca.attwood@tsleducation.com