{"id":832,"date":"2018-11-23T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=832"},"modified":"2018-11-29T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:46:21","slug":"letters-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/11\/23\/letters-19\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">In the last but one Capita survey, one LUMS department was particularly identified for &#8216;bullying&#8217;. By the next survey it was lauded how that situation had improved. To which the (rather obvious) reply is that, by the tendency of those who are bullied to quit, the metric is more likely to improve. This might apply to other &#8216;well-being&#8217; criteria?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Name and address supplied<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear subtext, In the last but one Capita survey, one LUMS department was particularly identified for &#8216;bullying&#8217;. By the next survey it was lauded how that situation had improved. To which the (rather obvious) reply is that, by the tendency &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/11\/23\/letters-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[431,429,362],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-bullying","tag-issue-183","tag-letters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-dq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1209,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/subtext-192-strike-while-the-subtext-is-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":832,"position":0},"title":"subtext 192 &#8211; &#8216;strike while the subtext is hot&#8217;","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often during term time. Letters, contributions, & comments: subtext-editors@lancaster.ac.uk Back issues & subscription details: http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/about\/ In this issue: editorial, strike, casualisation, lancaster exchange, student politics, emeriti, gender stereotyping, new build, spineless, university future, widden's review, penguins, letters. ***************************************************** EDITORIAL 'Ultimately our aim is to protect our community's wellbeing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;editorial&quot;","block_context":{"text":"editorial","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/editorial\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":701,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/09\/13\/letters-16\/","url_meta":{"origin":832,"position":1},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"September 13 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Did you know that the university has changed its policy on eye tests? 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