{"id":413,"date":"2018-03-01T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=413"},"modified":"2018-03-04T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T17:26:45","slug":"subtext-174-ambitious-managed-divergent-subtext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/01\/subtext-174-ambitious-managed-divergent-subtext\/","title":{"rendered":"subtext 174 – ‘ambitious managed divergent subtext’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fortnightly during term time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this issue: editorial, senate stuff<\/a>, gary\u2019s barmy army<\/a>, bunker blues<\/a>, fashion notes<\/a>, pickets\u2019r\u2019us<\/a>, sorry scan<\/a>, court in the act<\/a>, lusu democracy<\/a>, lost and found<\/a>, more lusu democracy<\/a>, more lost and found<\/a>, unis for sale<\/a>, shart<\/a>, comedy review<\/a>, widden reviews<\/a>, letters<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EDITORIAL<\/span><\/p>\n

Five days down, nine days of strike action to go (unless one side blinks today or tomorrow). It’s time for our Vice-Chancellor to state a consistent position, publicly, on the future of USS.<\/span><\/p>\n

As subtext revealed in a newsflash last week, Prof Smith denied in Senate that – as reported in the Times that day – he’d broken ranks with the majority of Vice-Chancellors and supported a change to Universities UK’s current policy on USS. Apparently the sides are too far apart and we couldn’t afford UCU’s demands anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Prof Smith’s statements to staff meetings over the past few months have been broadly supportive of retaining a defined benefit scheme, and many staff had been heartened to read that ‘Mark’s on our side’ last Wednesday. Some may have decided at the last minute not to take strike action, in the belief that Prof Smith was one of the good guys and gals within UUK who deserved support.<\/span><\/p>\n

So was the Times’s story just fake news? Or has our Vice-Chancellor been giving different messages to different audiences?<\/span><\/p>\n

A string of Vice-Chancellors made public declarations of support for a change to Universities UK’s pensions policy in the last week, with one (Glasgow Principal Anton Muscatelli) even joining striking staff on the picket line . Now might be a good time for Prof Smith to side with the staff at his own institution …<\/span><\/p>\n

… or not, if his statement to the Senate is a truer reflection of his thinking. If so, then he should say this openly – at least we’d know where he really stands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortnightly during term time. Letters, contributions, & comments: subtext-editors@lancaster.ac.uk Back issues & subscription details:\u00a0http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/about\/ In this issue: editorial, senate stuff, gary\u2019s barmy army, bunker blues, fashion notes, pickets\u2019r\u2019us, sorry scan, court in the act, lusu democracy, lost and found, more … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"subtext 174 - ambitious managed divergent subtext","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[233,179,70,258,75],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-issue-174","tag-strike","tag-ucu","tag-uss","tag-vc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-6F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":401,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/01\/scan-dal\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":0},"title":"SCAN-DAL","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 1 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In subtext 173, we suggested that a SCAN comment piece on the Gary Neville University, published last October, was the first time the publication had covered this story. 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