Durham University Student Social Workers in Solidarity
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Susan Harrison
9 years ago
Please reconsider your decision to close these well regarded courses. There are few postgraduate programmes available.
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Rachel Freeman
9 years ago
Academic Social Sciences are paramount in the development of scientific social services to respond competently to the needs of the society
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Richard Lawrie
9 years ago
Durham University should play its part and support the local, national and global community with the MSW and ISWCD.
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Anne Ng
9 years ago
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I feel to scrap this course will have a massive impact on both the uk and also in other countries. Social workers have a massive responsibility and need to be properly trained and equipped. I don't believe for one moment that a Fast Track course can train anyone properly to work in this field.
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HADIJAH MWENYANGO
9 years ago
Scrapping advanced Social Work Courses would be an injustice to the current and former students- as well as a denial of service to future social workers! And, a disservice to humanity!!
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Academic Social Sciences are paramount for the welfare of young people!
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Rachel Porter
9 years ago
We need properly trained social workers and I think the course is vitally important. Please don't scrap it; you need to invest in children's welfare by providing the resources and teaching to produce
good social workers, not leave children more at risk.
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Mmadi James
9 years ago
NO to closure of Social Work courses. Social Work improves people's lives every day worldwide.
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richard harris
9 years ago
The need for highly qualified, well rewarded and motivated social workers is greater now than ever before. For the more 'senior' educational institutions to shy away from supporting the teaching and research required to underpin the profession is to miss the point of their mission. ALL educational institutions need to have a link to the community which they serve and Durham's decision to to ignore that responsibility is both short-sighted and a kick in the teeth for social responsibility.
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Christian Kerr
9 years ago
I graduated from this course in 2013. I had a rich and rewarding experience and the course provided the foundations for my career progression so far. I believe I am making a positive and significant contribution to social work in the region, despite being one of the relatively few who graduate from Durham each year. Quality, not quantity, is key!
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Mike Fisher
9 years ago
Durham's social work programmes and research make a significant contribution to the national and international agenda for social justice. It would be a mistake for Durham to dissociate itself from the university mission to create a more just society.
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Ruth Hamilton
9 years ago
It is very disappointing that Durham University has not recognised the wider contribution of this programme and the need to stand up for the social work profession.
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Bill Williamson
9 years ago
These decisions reflect badly on the university and the values it should represent. Social work courses of this quality and achievement are an important element of the university's wider commitment to the region and to its international profile. Social work is a platform for inter-disciplinary collaboration and research and an essential component of the social wellbeing of society. Durham university needs to take a wider and longer term view of its academic offer and its student constituencies.
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Juliet Koprowska
9 years ago
The erosion of social work as an academic discipline, and the ending of social work education programmes is a huge mistake. Durham is a leader in this field and itsgraduates take with them a high level of intellectual rigour, professional acuity in decision-making and the capacity to influence policy and practice. Universities such as Durham should not become complicit in the reductive managerialiisng of social work by removing it from the university environment. Such actions fly in the face of reports such as Eileen Munro's on child protection (2011).
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Tessa Hochfeld
9 years ago
This is an excellent programme and their graduates offer a valuable service to social work globally. Please don't close the programme!
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Musafiri Elly
9 years ago
With the growing social and development problems across the globe, there is no way social work can be undermined especially by academics. Please Durham University, kindly revisit the in-process decision. Long live Africa
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Dorothee Holscher
9 years ago
These news are outrageous and disturbing. With best wishes for your struggle from the Global South, Dorothee Holscher, Secretary: Assocation of Schools of Social Work in Africa (ASSWA)
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Jadwiga Leigh
9 years ago
It is good to hear that students have started this campaign. This is testament to the course itself.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Social work needs professionals who are reflective, academically confident individuals. Please don't discontinue the course at a time when social workers are needed more than ever.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
These programs meet an important need to educate professionals able to address social needs. These programs need to stay, particularly at this juncture of rising social problems.
Please reconsider your decision to close these well regarded courses. There are few postgraduate programmes available.
Academic Social Sciences are paramount in the development of scientific social services to respond competently to the needs of the society
Durham University should play its part and support the local, national and global community with the MSW and ISWCD.
I feel to scrap this course will have a massive impact on both the uk and also in other countries. Social workers have a massive responsibility and need to be properly trained and equipped. I don't believe for one moment that a Fast Track course can train anyone properly to work in this field.
Scrapping advanced Social Work Courses would be an injustice to the current and former students- as well as a denial of service to future social workers! And, a disservice to humanity!!
Academic Social Sciences are paramount for the welfare of young people!
We need properly trained social workers and I think the course is vitally important. Please don't scrap it; you need to invest in children's welfare by providing the resources and teaching to produce good social workers, not leave children more at risk.
NO to closure of Social Work courses. Social Work improves people's lives every day worldwide.
The need for highly qualified, well rewarded and motivated social workers is greater now than ever before. For the more 'senior' educational institutions to shy away from supporting the teaching and research required to underpin the profession is to miss the point of their mission. ALL educational institutions need to have a link to the community which they serve and Durham's decision to to ignore that responsibility is both short-sighted and a kick in the teeth for social responsibility.
I graduated from this course in 2013. I had a rich and rewarding experience and the course provided the foundations for my career progression so far. I believe I am making a positive and significant contribution to social work in the region, despite being one of the relatively few who graduate from Durham each year. Quality, not quantity, is key!
Durham's social work programmes and research make a significant contribution to the national and international agenda for social justice. It would be a mistake for Durham to dissociate itself from the university mission to create a more just society.
It is very disappointing that Durham University has not recognised the wider contribution of this programme and the need to stand up for the social work profession.
These decisions reflect badly on the university and the values it should represent. Social work courses of this quality and achievement are an important element of the university's wider commitment to the region and to its international profile. Social work is a platform for inter-disciplinary collaboration and research and an essential component of the social wellbeing of society. Durham university needs to take a wider and longer term view of its academic offer and its student constituencies.
The erosion of social work as an academic discipline, and the ending of social work education programmes is a huge mistake. Durham is a leader in this field and itsgraduates take with them a high level of intellectual rigour, professional acuity in decision-making and the capacity to influence policy and practice. Universities such as Durham should not become complicit in the reductive managerialiisng of social work by removing it from the university environment. Such actions fly in the face of reports such as Eileen Munro's on child protection (2011).
This is an excellent programme and their graduates offer a valuable service to social work globally. Please don't close the programme!
With the growing social and development problems across the globe, there is no way social work can be undermined especially by academics. Please Durham University, kindly revisit the in-process decision. Long live Africa
These news are outrageous and disturbing. With best wishes for your struggle from the Global South, Dorothee Holscher, Secretary: Assocation of Schools of Social Work in Africa (ASSWA)
It is good to hear that students have started this campaign. This is testament to the course itself.
Social work needs professionals who are reflective, academically confident individuals. Please don't discontinue the course at a time when social workers are needed more than ever.
These programs meet an important need to educate professionals able to address social needs. These programs need to stay, particularly at this juncture of rising social problems.