The bullying of academics follows a pattern of horrendous, Orwellian elimination rituals, often hidden from the public. Despite the anti-bullying policies (often token), bullying is rife across campuses, and the victims (targets) often pay a heavy price.
"Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence." Leonardo da Vinci - "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men [or good women] do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
October 23, 2008
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Today 24/10 the Guardian carries the comments made by the Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as he spoke at Capital Hill of the way in which his trust in the responsibility of the banks 'had been misplaced'... and that he is now in a state of 'shocked disbelief' at what has happened.. the banks apparently could not be trusted...
It seems from my experiences that our universities cannot be trusted either...
... cannot be trusted to deal effectively with issues of alleged workplace bullying...
... education is a moral enterprise and therefore society looks to its academics to ACT morally -
actions speak louder than words
unis are generally good on the words... it's what they do...
Cases like mine have to go to grievance committees... not once but... because the directorate cannot find a way to acknowledge and then deal effectively with what has been happening
... even in the face of the strongest evidence...
... the governors are then also embroiled...
... there is something of the rabbits in the headlamps syndrome at my Russell Group... top research uni... as those with the power try to suggest that there is not problem...
... or that I am the problem...
... well one uni has to break ranks and demonstrate that it IS capable of dealing effectively with wpb... or we will have a tsunami of similar proportions to the current credit tsunami when the news finally breaks and the public realise just what has been happening in its universities that they have been funding...
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Today 24/10 the Guardian carries the comments made by the Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as he spoke at Capital Hill of the way in which his trust in the responsibility of the banks 'had been misplaced'... and that he is now in a state of 'shocked disbelief' at what has happened.. the banks apparently could not be trusted...
It seems from my experiences that our universities cannot be trusted either...
... cannot be trusted to deal effectively with issues of alleged workplace bullying...
... education is a moral enterprise and therefore society looks to its academics to ACT morally -
actions speak louder than words
unis are generally good on the words... it's what they do...
Cases like mine have to go to grievance committees... not once but... because the directorate cannot find a way to acknowledge and then deal effectively with what has been happening
... even in the face of the strongest evidence...
... the governors are then also embroiled...
... there is something of the rabbits in the headlamps syndrome at my Russell Group... top research uni... as those with the power try to suggest that there is not problem...
... or that I am the problem...
... well one uni has to break ranks and demonstrate that it IS capable of dealing effectively with wpb... or we will have a tsunami of similar proportions to the current credit tsunami when the news finally breaks and the public realise just what has been happening in its universities that they have been funding...
...so XXX XXX get your act together...
... lead the way...
.. don't do a Kingston...
Aphra Behn
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