Despite U.K. universities grappling with financial challenges and cutting academic positions, budgets are still being allocated to create ‘woke’ roles in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) with salaries reaching up to £100,000. The Mail has more.
Nearly half of U.K. vice-chancellors expect their university to be in financial deficit this year following a drop in the number of lucrative international students and the impact of inflation on fees, running costs and pension contributions.
As a result, academic departments are being merged and courses closed down, with some campuses facing strike action in opposition to the plans. Yet as hundreds of jobs are being cut, the EDI workforce appears immune.
Aston University in Birmingham, where 60 academics in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences are at risk of redundancy, has filled a £98,000-a-year post in ‘People, Culture and Inclusion’.
At Oxford Brookes, mathematics and music programmes are being cut as part of a bid to save £2 million while seeking an ‘Anti-Harassment and EDI Adviser’ on £39,000.
The Open University has recorded a £25 million operating deficit and launched a voluntary severance scheme for associate lecturers, but it recently filled two EDI vacancies, both offering salary packages of up to £46,223. One is a project officer working mainly on “gender equality” who has to attend the office “at least twice a year”.
Restructuring at Portsmouth University is likely to lead to the loss of 47 jobs, but a head of EDI was recently hired on a salary of up to £76,462. And while “double-figure redundancies” of fixed-term contract staff have hit the History Department at University College London, it has launched a search for a senior-level ‘Director of Equality, Inclusion and Culture’ on an undisclosed salary.
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I’m Irish and English ! Officially
The irish are rising up, so should the British!
I keep thinking having lived through the 1970,s ! Where is the IRA & other paramilitary groups who stopped at nothing to take back Ireland as they saw it ! The EU has done more recent damage than England has.
It isn’t the ‘bloody English’ and it’s not historical.
The Irish are getting what they deserve. They had voted to leave the EU in a referendum twice, only to change their minds when the issues were reframed. The EU then claimed they had listened to Irish concerns on abortion, military neutrality and sovereignty etc and basically scared voters into accepting the EU in a second referendum. I think the Irish can now see as their country is flooded with migrants that they were right the first time and are now regretting it.
Degrees will become increasingly worthless, at least for the wealth creating jobs. For the non productive jobs it looks like it’s a growth business, but much like when we shut down the economy to save the NHS, a growing non productive and parasitic economy will kill itself as the productive individuals are let go and the real value tax revenue dwindles away. Perhaps this is deliberate, especially if those pushing this are Marxists. What a ‘clever’ way to destroy free market capitalism.
They cancelled our voices and allowed this to happen to other colleagues and now their jobs are going to the people they thought were the good guys so zero sympathy from me.
Public universities are lost causes and are not worth saving. Let them rot.
Universities started going to crap when the rivers of gold from foreign students become their focus. I’m in no way blaming the foreign students who are ripped off almost as much as taxpayers. The universities realised they could make money not from providing education, but from selling citizenship. Many of the students were less interested in a quality degree so it no longer mattered. In Australia this is exacerbated by universities focussing on cheap to deliver, popular degrees and failing to train students in key skills needed in the economy. Therefore social sciences degrees are plentiful, but costly degrees like agricultural science, medicine, engineering are few.
AI is the thing now so the system probably sees Degrees as unnecessary!
A similar thing is happening in the NHS.
In 1979 they spent 4% of their budget on admin
in 2006 it was 14%
today it’s 25+%
Money is increasingly spent on bureaucracy instead of front line activity
What is so interesting is that with computerization of so many processes you would think they would have less administrative staff.
Noah Carl did a good enquiry into why woke has spread so widely. It seems that the increase in women going to University, and also the rise of female lecturers, has led to this. I am sorry to say that women’s characteristics lead us to a world like this.
That is why, in the past, women were rarely allowed to hold powerful positions. And, perhaps, controversially, why women were not allowed to be educated too highly. Think about what kind of society we would be living in if only men ran things. I think it would much stronger and safer and our welfare budget would be very small.
The mission of women is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world, is what you seem to believe.
Women were not allowed to hold powerful positions in Nazi Germany.
Goebbels said: The mission of women is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world.
This fits in nicely with the current orthodoxy that insists that students are to be taught what to think rather than how to think.