Articles and other media coverage
Skills Crap - Private Eye (23rd July)
King’s College was told cutting more staff could be ‘difficult’ - Times Higher Education (17th July)
Revealed: Key King’s justification for cutting 57 academics contradicted by major report from 2013 - ROAR! (15th July)
King's College London: world leaders in business nonsense - Guardian (15th July)
King’s staff and students protest over 57 Health Schools job cuts – the strike in pictures - ROAR! (11th July)
Save Our Staff – or we’ll strike! - rs21 (10th July)
KCL staff & students march from Waterloo to Guy’s in jobs protest - London SE1 community website (10th July)
King’s updates at-risk staff via external forum - Times Higher Education (10th July)
Princess Anne visit to King’s called off owing to strike - Times Higher Education (10th July)
King’s cuts and runs from debate - Times Higher Education (10th July)
The King's College London scientist purge: what message does it send? - The Guardian (9th July)
King’s says around 60 Health Schools academics now ‘at risk’ of redundancy as UCU prepare to strike - ROAR! (4th July)
Blog by fanismissirlis (4th July)
No logic in King’s College job cuts - Times Higher Education (3rd July)
King’s College strike to coincide with royal visit - Times Higher Education (3rd July)
Cuts loom for leading psychiatry school - The Independent (second letter on page) (26th June)
King's College London academics to strike in row over job losses- Evening Standard (25th June)
King's College London academics back industrial action- BBC News (25th June)
King’s staff vote for strike action over job cuts - Times Higher Education (25th June)
'My supervisor is not replacable': students protest against job cuts at King's College London – in pictures - Guardian (25th June)
Student Flash Mob Tells the True Story of King's Job Cuts - Huffington Post (25th June)
Protests mount over King’s College London academic job cuts - London SE1 community website (25th June)
Cuts at King's College - The Psychologist (24th June)
#KCLHealthSoS flash mob 24/06/14 - Storify (24th June)
Students stage protest against Health Schools redundancies - GKT gazette (24th June)
Roar! says: When King’s want staff culled, they’ll barely give them time to scream before ‘letting them go’ ROAR! (23rd June)
Mass redundancies at King's College London are destroying morale - Guardian Professional (23rd June)
- SUSY Radio (Sussex and Surrey, 20th June)
The rush to sack Health Schools staff isn’t ‘creating certainty’, it’s seeding doubt among staff and students - ROAR! (18th June)
The University as big business: The case of King's College London - deevybee.blogspot (18th June)
Principal Rick Trainor: 120 job cuts not part of a “grand master plan” - ROAR! (16th June)
Concerns grow over Health Schools redundancies - GKT gazette (16th June)
Special Edition of The Looking Glass (IoP Magazine)
- includes comments from the Susan Lea (Vice-Dean of Education at IoP), the Athena Swan Team and the IoP Student Forum
Students dismayed by cuts at King's College London - Guardian Blog (11th June)
BMA gears up for action on jobs threat - BMA.org (10th June)
KCL threaten to slash 120 jobs to fund new uni buildings - Kings Tab (10th June)
Bad financial management at Kings College London means VC Rick Trainor is firing 120 scientists - dcscience.net (June 7th)
King's College London to cut jobs to fund university buildings - Guardian (5th June)
Strike ballot at King’s College London over proposed job cuts - Times Higher Education (5th June)
Student campaigners and Vice Principal both under fire for spreading ‘inaccuracies’ about redundancies - GKT gazette (3rd June)
120 academic jobs puts at risk - BMA.org (28th May)
UCU accuses King’s of prioritising buildings over staff - GKT gazette (21st May)
King’s plans ‘to cut 120 jobs in Health Schools’ as UCU call proposals ‘catastrophically out of touch’ - ROAR! (16th May)
Up to 120 academic jobs to be cut in the Health Schools - GKT gazette (16th May)
ANONYMOUS COMMENTS
by TEACHERS and STUDENTS
"It is clear that teaching has been taking second place to research in this process up to now. Research centre heads (eg Head of the Randall, MRC Dev Biol, etc) have been kept up to date but NOT heads of departments (Physiology, Anatomy, etc). At the meeting to decide which of the 140 at-risk staff to go, teaching within Biomedical and Health Science will only be represented by the Dean (Ian McFadzean), not by the individual HoDs at all.
HoDs WERE consulted initially and while they didn't identify individuals, they did indicate which courses or even degree programmes would seriously suffer of even be unsustainable if the College's plans went ahead. These have apparently been ignored without exception."
- Lecturer
"Universities are educational institutions with the purpose of education and are not intended to put their financial agenda above the student interest. I hope, together, the student and staff who are the building blocks of this historic institution can bring back our rights to an educational institution that prides itself of its exception quality of teaching."
- Student
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