Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[YGG-]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I'm sending this IM to see if you got my voice mail which asked if you got my fax which was verifying that you got my email that was checking if you got my post card that was to see if you got my letter which requested that you come across the street to talk to me.

BOb

Aaaaaaah ! At last! Now you're talking business!

[YGG-]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I really don't want to see a photo of anyone's stool.

Now bOb... couldn't you avoid that one????

[Patricia]

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

short-sighted is the LEAST you can say. but i suppose you're trying to avoid inappropriate language for the forum.

good luck patricia. i really hope you can make them see reason, and keep all your jobs.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

Sorry to hear about this. Why is it they always hit the humanities so hard in these cases? Never ceases to amaze me. You'd thnk that education was unimportant the way it gets treated sometimes in this country.

Hope it works out Patricia, and if there's anything I can do, sign a petition, whatever, please let me know.

[tirsales]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

I agree with Zelda on this on - short sighted is not the term I would have chosen ...
I wish you the best of luck - hope it resolves well ...

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

Best of luck with it.

And I very definitely agree it's short-sighted at the very least

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

short sighted indeed, hope you make them see sense Patricia, education is an extremely important element in any bodys' future - personal or national .... it provides one of the seeds for growth ....

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Campaigning against this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8014753.stm

My job, my colleagues' jobs, and my tutors' jobs will be lost. And a lot of students will no longer be able to get the sourses they want.
If you think that it is short-sighted to close off educational opprtunities during a recession, then I agree with you.

Since this massacre is directly linked with funding, could you manage to find and face the source withholders and negociate an increase?

If it is governmental funding, then the goverment is directly responsible for this cut via the law it composed and must be subjected publicly to criticism. Governments are spending recklessly to counter recession, surely a law like that one is counterproductive. Or is this spending reserved for incompetent banker benefit...

[Curly]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

short sighted indeed, hope you make them see sense Patricia, education is an extremely important element in any bodys' future - personal or national .... it provides one of the seeds for growth ....

Especially since lifelong learning is one of the current responsibilities of the Welsh Assembly.

Quote from the Welsh Assembly website:

"Lifelong learning creates better opportunities, empowers communities and helps to provide the jobs and skills that people need. Lifelong learning will help to bring a bright and sustainable future to the people of Wales."

http://wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/?lang=en

Lifelong Learning is one of the Scottish Parliament's current initiatives as well, but there just isn't enough money going around to fund projects. Organisations are having to rely much more heavily on volunteers to do jobs that paid staff used to do.

[Moejoe]

Currently writing a story about Emily Dickinson, inspired by a Frank Black song and seeing some children playing this morning on their way to school. In best Hannibal from the A-Team voice "I love it when a story comes together."

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by Curly

Especially since lifelong learning is one of the current responsibilities of the Welsh Assembly.

Quote from the Welsh Assembly website:

"Lifelong learning creates better opportunities, empowers communities and helps to provide the jobs and skills that people need. Lifelong learning will help to bring a bright and sustainable future to the people of Wales."

http://wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/?lang=en

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.

[GeoffC]

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.

Good news to end the week on .....

[nekokami]

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.

Good work. I think this kind of "grassroots" mobilization can be very effective for situations like this.

Let's see... email list, blog, facebook, twitter, online petition... You could create a YouTube video with some great teaching moments and short interviews with some of the people whose jobs are at risk, and the students who will be cut off. If any of your students have enough talent in that direction to make a really funny video, it could take off and get a lot of attention for your cause. I'm not sure MeetUp would be relevant for you, though it might help to try using it to organize rallies around your area. Your blog will have an RSS feed, I presume...

We could make tshirts, buttons/badges, bumper stickers, etc. through the Ministry shop at cost if that would help get the word out.... "Oh! The Humanities!"

[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.