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Originally Posted by Patricia
We have already started lobbying Welsh Assembly Government Ministers, including Jane Hutt, the minister responsible for education, Lifelong Learning and Training, plus a number of Assembly Members.
After two days of the campaign we were the lead story today on Radio Wales news, the lead story in the South Wales Echo and covered elsewhere too.
My email is jammed with people expressing support, so I've started a list with regular bulletins and will probably migrate it to a blog or website sometime next week.
As soon as the union manages to get the figures from the university, we've lined up a team to go through them with a fine-toothed comb, then devise an alternative plan.
There's a public meeting on Monday, too. We're going to get some of our tutors to set up a Facebook site, twitter, and the online petition should be enabled by Monday. Our students are already asking what they can do to help, and have been wonderful.
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Aside: I am increasingly frustrated with the "establishment" attitude towards (tertiary/on-going/adult) education. Which is in part why I left a teaching post. I always thought they were about finding out how to self-study, to learn how to think, discuss, reason and argue. Now the purpose is about providing a trained workforce that knows how to install widget X into device Z. And so it doesn't seen any point in wasting money in something without direct application.... <descends from soap box rant>
I'm glad you are getting organised; and wish the best for you. As I understand it, part of this will be for facts that should affect (to a lesser or greater extent) other institutions. Has the union (UCU?) tried talking to other establishments?
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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Or you could wear a pshrynk and Patricia '04 T and show them that you were the replacement for The Veep in an alternate universe. I'm sure that would really impress them.
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I fear, pshrynk, that you might just be channelling Lefty again. Could you try purring?