[Muanet] Worst VC prize

[Jim Macbeth]

This was sent to me by a former student, now in NZ.

jim


Brunel V-C nominated as Britain's worst boss

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 post.

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.


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