Lancaster University Department of Continuing Education (DCE) is under threat

Lancaster University Department of Continuing Education (DCE) is under threat. The university’s Vice Chancellor announced a “reduction in activities” which could leave thousands of part-time students unable to complete their studies. It is also an explicit threat to the jobs of the forty staff in DCE – staff are already being encouraged to look for other employment – and 200 part-time tutors.

A petition has been launched here demanding:

1. A withdrawal of the threat of compulsory redundancies.

2. Proper, detailed consultation with campus unions.

3. A continuing Lancaster University Adult Education provision in the region.

4. A disclosure to DCE staff and campus trade unions of the full rationale for this decision.

5. Staff in DCE to be as fully involved as possible in any review of their Department.

6. Pending the results of any review, DCE to be given a 2 year breathing space to allow students to finish their courses and for staff to find other funding sources.

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3 Responses to “Lancaster University Department of Continuing Education (DCE) is under threat”

  1. Rod Hacking Says:
    May 24, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Please, please, leave the DCE alone: it is lifeblood

  2. Name Witheld Says:
    October 12, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    The equation is simple, if they waste the money on a bogus war on terrorism, then it is not there for Education, Libraries, NHS and all the other peaceful services.

    Look, for 7 years I have been telling people on campus that both 911 and 7/7 were inside jobs, designed to bring about war, cuts in services , freedoms and world democracy. Very few have ever bothered to really look at the clear evidence I have presented continuously on the board outside the Faraday computer labs.

    Many of you same people looked at me as though I had two heads when I spoke to you person to person.

    I am now so pleased you cretinous idiots are suffering and long may it last.

    Here is how it is in brief – either take it or piss off!

    Naomi Wolf tells it how it is in 80 minutes.

    http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/177.html

    (copy and past into your browser)

    For goodness sakes wake up people – the powers that be will be burning books next if you don’t WAKE UP!!!!.

    And I strongly advise you store food water and all survival essentials ASAP, this is not a credit crunch but a deliberate US Coup.

    I withhold my name due to being ridiculed and discriminated against and generally blackballed at Lancaster University when exposing the truth

  3. ykozrn Says:
    June 11, 2009 at 6:53 pm

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