A brief take on the Glasgow Uni cuts saga ‘cos I’m bored of re-blogging amusing things and wish to chat to the world at large: though there are some things which there admittedly have to be cuts in, modern languages? Nursing? Events management, ok; anthropology, well, what even is it? Nobody to whom I’ve spoken knows, even those who considered taking the subject! But German, Italian, various other languages and healthcare provision… that’s just not very sensible in an increasingly international job market, and at a time when Glasgow nurses buck the trend by having amazing employability and a profitable department.
With this in mind, I joined the “March on meeting of the University Court: For Reasonable People” today, ‘cos our French lecture had been cancelled with 2 seconds to go, and I felt I didn’t want to be associated with the Hetherington RC Occupiers after their stupid harassment of Aaron Porter. I was handed a lovely sign, which read “This isn’t very reasonable” and got a mildly uncomfortable throat from chanting “They say CUTBACKS, we say CONSULTATION!” Because, to be honest, it’s just unrealistic to say no cutbacks at all. We’re in a recession, English unis are getting a boost from fees, and there clearly needs to be something done.
Having said that, I was amused by the signs in general:
A picture with Justin Bieber’s face on it: “German? We don’t have that here.”
“Muscatelli must ESCARGOT!”
“Not JUAN cut!”
“In Soviet Russia: Modern Languages Cuts You”
“Tequila language? Bad hangover”
And the wonderful head of the reasonable movement: an alligator/crocodile on a pole.
I’m sure there were more, but can’t think of any at the moment…
EDIT: “Cuts to German? That’s so GRIMM BROTHER” « I liked that one :)
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