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It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
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I would like to hear, probably from the DVC, whether he believes it is ethically sound for both the government and the University to favour those subjects which will facilitate the highest financial gain for the University (in terms of research etc) – when did our Universities become all about grabbing the most money rather than the education of our people?
As an employee in the fundraising office I’m very aware of the financial situation and needs of our University and, as our DVC rightly noted, the need at times to run the institution in a business-like manner. As a student and teacher of History I am deeply incensed that this can extend to favouring those subjects that will, inevitably, draw the majority of funding in this day and age, such as the Sciences and Engineering.
As a University it is, and has always been since the birth of our form of institution, our whole responsibility to perpetuate the gain, investigation and expanding of knowledge in ALL areas. However important technological and scientific advance is in today’s climate, a lack of investment in the Arts will fundamentally diminish our own cultural awareness and knowledge, and we will slowly become detached from our own history, our own thought and our own emotion – we will begin to head towards the technologised, pseudo-apocalyptic societies that so many individuals have foreseen for us.
It is a University’s responsibility to fully oppose this.
I took the decision to study for my PhD because, to me, the dissemination of my knowledge to future generations is all that matters, yet now I see no future in the job-field that I have chosen. So I choose to try and support the movement towards UK philanthropy in the HE sector, in the hope that one day we can restore our universities to the excellent institutions they once were.
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I was the UWE lecturer denied access to your meeting. I would like to endorse Harriet and Moraig’s comments about academic freedom. The administration has been succesful in avoiding a fracas on the door and creating an illusion of openness yet they have kept a very tight control of who has access. Academic freedom is a vital point of principle. The disingenuity of the VC needs to be flushed out.
Well done for all you are doing.
In solidarity,
Dr Sue Tate, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, UWE
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There is an old army adage drawn from a General’s speech which is as follows: “note to self – argument weak, shout here” Well done to the deputy VC for demonstrating this practice so ably today – threatening to walk out because of a student’s question!
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