Continuing Education saved at Brighton University
Some good news from Brighton University this week, where it was reported that Continuing and Vocational Education/Adult Education provision will not now be suspended. The suspension, announced in March this year, has now been lifted, and the provision will be re-launched in January, in expanded form. Recruitment to the courses will commence in October. The UCU has also secured an assurance that existing staff on temporary contracts who were recently made redundant will be offered the work again from January, while permanent staff will be engaged in refining the provision, and in designing the new programmes. An energetic union and community based campaign was set up and the decision to continue with provision was taken after the Faculty Academic Board for Arts and Humanities expressed concern about the manner in which the decision had been taken, and declined to endorse it. This is an important reaffirmation of the role of Faculty Academic Boards, and by extension of the University Academic Board, in the governance of this academic institution. For more on this campaign, click here: http://www.savebrightonarthouse.org/about-4/
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