{"id":897,"date":"2019-02-01T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=897"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:52:57","slug":"not-the-court-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/02\/01\/not-the-court-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT THE COURT REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, subtext used to report on University Court – the closest thing Lancaster had to an AGM, with students, staff, graduates and local bigwigs in attendance. Sadly (see subtexts 172<\/a> and 176<\/a>), our Court is no more, but in its place we were promised an annual public meeting, where anyone could come along, listen to senior officers and ask questions – as long as they didn’t refer to anything COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE, of course. It would have no formal status, but that could allow new and innovative formats and timings.<\/span><\/p>\n

So… when can we expect our first annual public meeting? It’s now been a year since the final Court and a ‘date for your diary’ could have been announced by now, surely? The last mention subtext can find in university minutes comes from UMAG in September, when the annual meeting was definitely ‘on’, but it’s not listed in the current timetable of meetings for 2018\/19.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will it ever happen? Any information will be gratefully received.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, subtext used to report on University Court – the closest thing Lancaster had to an AGM, with students, staff, graduates and local bigwigs in attendance. Sadly (see subtexts 172 and 176), our Court is no more, but in … 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_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":[4],"tags":[452,62],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-issue-185","tag-university-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-et","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":732,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/09\/13\/university-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":897,"position":0},"title":"UNIVERSITY COURT","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"September 13 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"2018 saw the demise of the University Court, one of Lancaster's oldest and most diverse decision-making bodies. The University Court was an annual gathering bringing together a whole array of stakeholders. It made recommendations to the Senate and the Council of the university, was responsible for appointing the Pro-Chancellor, had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "history"","block_context":{"text":"history","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":399,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/01\/court-fort\/","url_meta":{"origin":897,"position":1},"title":"COURT FORT","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 1 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"subtext has extensively covered the recent abolition of University Court (subtexts passim), but has yet to give much thought to the 'annual public meeting' that top table seeks to replace it with. Thankfully, student newspaper SCAN has unearthed some interesting information on management\u2019s plans for the future. 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