OPPOSE PROJECT TRANSFORM AND ACADEMIC REDUNDANCIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

This shouldn't happen...

With tuitions fees as high as they are, it's deplorable that teaching standards should be jeopardised in this way.

dirks my boi

no one wants plants instead of educated good education.

Without a doubt, the highlight of my time at university has been the teaching and support I have had from the passionate, diverse and all-round wonderful Theology Department staff. To see a single one of them go under these cuts would be an immense loss to all current and future students of Theology and the Faculty of Arts.

I cannot think of a single member of the theology department at Nottingham who could be considered dispensable

The Theology Department's diversity of staff needs to be protected, not penalised.

If Project Transform is truly designed to seek out and implement the wishes of the students then we must be listened to. We are telling you that we DO NOT WANT any of the forced redundancies that are taking place within our department - they are not in our name! We stand in solidarity with our staff.

Project Transform is, by all accounts, a deeply opaque restructuring operation whose immediate effects - the rather *un*transformative imposition of staff redundancies - will only damage the so-called 'student experience'. As a current student at the University, I have been neither informed about nor consulted on the Project's existence or role - a project apparently in my, and other students', best interests. And as a member of the CLAS faculty, its only visible impact, thus far, has been this unjust and inhuman calculation, very much at odds with its chirpy, soundbyte-heavy PR. It is deeply disappointing that an institution like Nottingham is playing an active role in the structural marginalisation of the Arts in the UK (and what else do forced redundancies in university Arts departments signify?). Such manoeuvres must be resisted. With solidarity to all those currently affected...

These cuts will seriously damage the University in a field in which it has hitherto excelled. Senseless and totally unnecessary.

I have listened carefully to the video explanations of Project Transform. No answers are offered as to why language teaching and learning have been endangered. The Project is failing already and should be abandoned.

These proposals are inexplicable and deeply depressing. Like other signatories, I oppose them 100%.

Please do not cut funds to Language Departments. Languages are vital in the modern business world, culturally important and fun to study.

This is University wide and effects everyone. Support staff across the University are having to accept jobs they don't want and move to areas they did not chose. This has been done to "improve the student experience", but has demotivated staff to such an extent they are now unhappy to come to work.

These cuts, together with the failure to fill FIVE recently vacant positions in French, threaten to reduce Nottingham's highly reputed ML departments to a non-viable position which will seem to license yet harsher cuts.

What a phenomenally bad idea - keep the staff, keep the reputation. Education should be for its own sake, not some arbitrary profiteering business model. Quality higher education is what the future is made from. Solidarity with UoN teaching staff,

Taking student facing offices out of schools is a step backwards for student support. We all know how frustrating it is being dealt with by a several people trying to resolve one issue. service centers are going to take away the personal touch. Students who belong to schools that know their names, see them on a daily basis and can recognize a student in distress by the small changes in their behaviour will lose that personal touch. With all good intention from the staff that will eventually work in these service centres, they will be unable to continue that level of service. As an administrator affected by transform I still don't know what my day to day job will be. It seems we will be pulled around across campuses, schools and service centres. This is not the way to.motivate staff. Other admin staff have been placed in roles that they didn't apply for. Does project transform realise that it has such a large number of stressed, and deeply unhappy staff . Do they even care?

I graduated with a PhD from this university. That says a lot about how I feel about all this nonsense.

Ridiculous and a real shame that this is even being considered. What are the extortionate university fees for again...?!?

I am a University of Nottingham graduate who has been proud to teach at this world-renowned institution for many years now. I despair that UoN has become so focused on creating impressive-looking glass-clad vacuous (but useless) buildings and has lost sight of what really matters: the provision of excellent teaching for students. Associated with this is an incredibly hard-working army of administrators who support both the teachers and the students. Many administrative staff work long hours, often unpaid and unrecognised, because they care for the students and loyally support the academics with our ever-burgeoning workloads. We all welcome the introduction of a much-needed new computer system and look forward to the efficiencies that it will hopefully create, but why has the University of Nottingham had to treat its staff so badly in the process? The administrators have been deeply hurt by the University's callous behaviour toward them and my academic colleagues and I have been appalled by how it has simply cast aside our petitions to retain these valuable colleagues in Schools. I fear bridges have been burnt in the Project Transform process and ultimately it will be the students (now paying customers) who will bear the brunt of it. P.s. Like many contributors to this petition, I have withheld my name for fear of reprisal (UoN Social Media Policy for Staff: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hr/guidesandsupport/universitycodesofpracticeandrules/documents/social-media-policy-for-staff-11-2015.pdf)