{"id":1470,"date":"2021-02-19T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:36:39","slug":"middle-management-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/02\/19\/middle-management-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Management Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by a reader<\/p>\n<p>They come, they go, head honchos called Deans,<br \/>\nEach one instigating yet another counting of beans,<br \/>\nTrim trim the gold standard crew,<br \/>\nYet another, yet another, PS review!<\/p>\n<p>Need to make cuts, budget slicing, push push,<br \/>\nTake the quality service, reduce to homogeneous mush,<br \/>\nThink <q>central<\/q> can students support, no, just a number, no chat,<br \/>\nAcademics watch out, your workloads to grow with <q>new hat<\/q>.<\/p>\n<p>Better to trim faculties to essential management,<br \/>\nKeep the gold standard service, avoid student lament,<br \/>\nDo you see, do you listen, what keeps us afloat?<br \/>\nOh hey, too late, they&#8217;re on the <q>elsewhere<\/q> boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by a reader They come, they go, head honchos called Deans, Each one instigating yet another counting of beans, Trim trim the gold standard crew, Yet another, yet another, PS review! 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