{"id":184,"date":"2017-11-09T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=184"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:42:22","slug":"end-of-part-one-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/end-of-part-one-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"END OF PART ONE PART TWO"},"content":{"rendered":"

As well as the implications for departmental workloads, these proposals also carry major financial implications that seemingly haven’t figured in any of the plans. Departments or degree schemes with small student numbers are very dependent on the revenue that Part I minor students provide. DeLC and Sociology, for example, might not survive the loss of income, nor would they survive losing the students who opt to switch into their degrees after enjoying minoring their subject during Part I. It is proposed that the Senate be consulted on the implementation of these changes at its next meeting \u2013 not whether it should happen or not, we hasten to add, but the implementation. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are some very angry and upset members of staff in a number of departments. We have already reported on various departments being asked to slash their budgets (subtext 165), and a struggling degree scheme being berated and threatened with closure if things don’t turn around (subtext 167). Has the prospect of a mass exodus of smaller departments figured as an issue in the proposals, or, to be conspiratorial, is something being pre-empted here?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As well as the implications for departmental workloads, these proposals also carry major financial implications that seemingly haven’t figured in any of the plans. 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