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<div>This was sent to me by a former student, now in NZ.</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Brunel V-C nominated as
Britain's worst boss</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Brunel University's
Vice-Chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz has been nominated as
Britain's worst boss for a new Channel 4 television programme
looking for budding David Brent's of The Office fame. Described by
the Association of University Teachers (AUT) as being
"industrial-relations challenged", Professor Schwartz has managed to
provoke a vote of no- confidence in his management from staff . It
mirrored a similar no-confidence vote delivered by staff and students
at Murdoch University in Australia, his last university
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">AUT General Secretary Sally Hunt
said that while the Channel 4 programme would be light-hearted, the
reality for union members at Brunel was no laughing matter. "Brunel
is making sixty staff redundant, with thirty compulsory redundancies,
an almost unheard of event in a British university," she said.
Senior management have refused to meet with the union, leading to
threats by the AUT that it will issue injunction proceedings if the
University presses ahead with the redundancies.</font></div>
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