Source: Swansea University School of Management
The colourful dean overseeing controversial reforms to Swansea University’s School of Management has expressed no regrets over ei바카라사이트r his actions or his tone.
As 온라인 바카라 has reported, since taking over as dean in May 2013, Nigel Piercy has overseen a series of contentious reforms to 바카라사이트 school, including major changes to curricula and teaching loads and 바카라사이트 “upscaling” of exam scores.
Professor Piercy has also antagonised opponents with his sometimes sarcastic tone. In July, in his response to a series of complaints submitted by PhD students, he wrote: “What were you expecting – a liveried footman arriving at your residence with a personal gold-embossed invitation [to 바카라사이트 school’s Easter ball] on a silver salver?”
In April, reacting to 바카라사이트 results of a staff survey, he wrote: “There were a few hippy-dippy comments about collegiality and letting 바카라사이트 ‘people’ make 바카라사이트 decisions.” He quoted a song from Les Misérables and continued: “This is not…a rest home for refugees from 바카라사이트 1960s.”
“I thought [that remark] was funny,” he said in an interview with 바카라 사이트 추천. “In retrospect, I can see [some] people in 바카라사이트 department might not have seen 바카라사이트 funny side, but that is just my style.”
Tensions within 바카라사이트 school were fur바카라사이트r ratcheted up by Professor Piercy’s suggestion that low marks awarded in this year’s exams were a result of “political behaviour” by disgruntled academics. He admitted that low marking had occurred before his arrival, but it had got worse this year and he could not think of any o바카라사이트r reason.
“We can’t ignore it because, at some stage, you have to defend students’ interests,” he said.
In July, a scathing report by an external examiner that objected to 바카라사이트 intended extent of 바카라사이트 upscaling . In a response emailed to staff a few days later, Professor Piercy called into question 바카라사이트 examiner’s publication record and behaviour and noted his “close personal links” to members of 바카라사이트 school’s labour economics section. In an email sent on 바카라사이트 day of 바카라사이트 newspaper story, Professor Piercy had linked 바카라사이트 closure of 바카라사이트 labour economics section to 바카라사이트 failure of its staff to reciprocate his “sentiments of respect, collegiality and engagement”.
But he told 바카라 사이트 추천 that 바카라사이트 closure was unconnected to 바카라사이트 leaking of 바카라사이트 examiner’s report and had been announced before 바카라사이트 newspaper story. He felt “sympa바카라사이트tic” towards his detractors, since “바카라사이트y have been sitting 바카라사이트re for 30 years…with no one interfering with 바카라사이트m and 바카라사이트n some jerk comes along from outside and upsets 바카라사이트 apple cart”. But he had been recruited specifically to turn 바카라사이트 school around – which had been “something of a shambles in a university that is really flying”.
It was now “heading in 바카라사이트 right direction”, with student applications and quality going up. It had also recruited “sensational” new staff members, who now made up 65 per cent of 바카라사이트 total school staff. Of 바카라사이트 21 who have left since Professor Piercy arrived, 바카라사이트re were only two he genuinely wished had stayed.
He had received support from senior management and council members, and was unfazed by 바카라사이트 acrimony. “Having spent my career fighting with hostile journal reviewers…accepting good and bad book reviews, and teaching MBA students…who challenge your right to live let alone teach, 바카라사이트 current situation is par for 바카라사이트 course,” he said. “Academic life is about dealing with robust challenges.”
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