I am a politics student - the study of politics is essential to understanding the goings-on in the modern world
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John Holford
11 years ago
I was the first Head of Surrey's Politics department
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Abbas
11 years ago
Do the right thing.
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Gregor McLennan
11 years ago
At a time when student sign-up for good Politics courses in British universities is particularly bouyant, it seems very short-sighted for Surrey to be closing or restructuring an evidently successful, student-experience-oriented department. As Head of School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol, I wish to convey the widespread dismay at this news amongst my colleagues, and not only those identifying with the discipline of Politics/IR.
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Lauren Turner
11 years ago
Save Surrey Pol
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Emma Murphy
11 years ago
When students and former students make this much effort in support of staff, you know those staff did something very right.
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Jim Donaghey
11 years ago
Down with this sort of thing!
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Steven Curtis
11 years ago
A great department with leaders in pedagogical research and innovative practice in the discipline. Please leave it as it is.
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mone Betterton
11 years ago
No holds barred!
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Vivienne Matthies-Boon
11 years ago
Surrey Politics is an excellent department with very dedicated staff. It should not be reduced in size and the study of Politics should remain a central feature of study at the University of Surrey. I am a previous employer at the UoS, and therefore have direct well-informed knowledge of the highlevel of teaching and research quality at this Department.
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Peter Wilson
11 years ago
This seems to be a decision dictated by REF performance. How much damage will this costly and stupid system cause before those who run HE come to their senses? The time has come for vice-chancellors to earn their money and stand up for academic values rather than pander to the economistic agenda of successive governments.
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Sam King
11 years ago
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fantastic department run by committed staff who know their students inside out. I would not be enjoying my military career without the help and support of the academics within this department. To get rid of this academic facility would be ludicrous.
The systematic destruction of all that is valuable in the social and political life of this country will continue to happen in small steps unless we act now to say no!
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Vincent Druliolle
11 years ago
It's sad to see that Universities seem to have forgotten that education and teaching are fundamental aspects of what they (should) do. How can one claim to have any kind of societal impact and see teaching as something that doesn't matter. Besides, everybody knows that most rankings reproduce the dominance of a particular (and by the way increasingly irrelevant) way of doing political science? Should Surrey academics be blamed for being interested in other topics and perspectives? It is simply not true that they don't "produce" anything.
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Selina Uddin
11 years ago
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Dan Goss
11 years ago
The humanities in general seem under threat from an increasingly marketised system of higher education that prioritises courses which it deems most valuable to global capitalism. We have to fight this at every turn, not for the benefit of alumni's career prosects (I lament this line of argument) but to continue to provide spaces where at least some semblance of criticism of current structures is possible. Politics degrees at leading universities are surely examples of such environments, and this is probably a contributing factor to the sector wide fervour of axing funding for the humanities in general.
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Mark Zammit
11 years ago
Hope you are successful with reversing the decision.
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Dr Paul Marchant
11 years ago
Stand up against managerialism.
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Chris Vaughan
11 years ago
A great department that is essential for a serious university
I am a politics student - the study of politics is essential to understanding the goings-on in the modern world
I was the first Head of Surrey's Politics department
Do the right thing.
At a time when student sign-up for good Politics courses in British universities is particularly bouyant, it seems very short-sighted for Surrey to be closing or restructuring an evidently successful, student-experience-oriented department. As Head of School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol, I wish to convey the widespread dismay at this news amongst my colleagues, and not only those identifying with the discipline of Politics/IR.
Save Surrey Pol
When students and former students make this much effort in support of staff, you know those staff did something very right.
Down with this sort of thing!
A great department with leaders in pedagogical research and innovative practice in the discipline. Please leave it as it is.
No holds barred!
Surrey Politics is an excellent department with very dedicated staff. It should not be reduced in size and the study of Politics should remain a central feature of study at the University of Surrey. I am a previous employer at the UoS, and therefore have direct well-informed knowledge of the highlevel of teaching and research quality at this Department.
This seems to be a decision dictated by REF performance. How much damage will this costly and stupid system cause before those who run HE come to their senses? The time has come for vice-chancellors to earn their money and stand up for academic values rather than pander to the economistic agenda of successive governments.
fantastic department run by committed staff who know their students inside out. I would not be enjoying my military career without the help and support of the academics within this department. To get rid of this academic facility would be ludicrous.
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The systematic destruction of all that is valuable in the social and political life of this country will continue to happen in small steps unless we act now to say no!
It's sad to see that Universities seem to have forgotten that education and teaching are fundamental aspects of what they (should) do. How can one claim to have any kind of societal impact and see teaching as something that doesn't matter. Besides, everybody knows that most rankings reproduce the dominance of a particular (and by the way increasingly irrelevant) way of doing political science? Should Surrey academics be blamed for being interested in other topics and perspectives? It is simply not true that they don't "produce" anything.
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The humanities in general seem under threat from an increasingly marketised system of higher education that prioritises courses which it deems most valuable to global capitalism. We have to fight this at every turn, not for the benefit of alumni's career prosects (I lament this line of argument) but to continue to provide spaces where at least some semblance of criticism of current structures is possible. Politics degrees at leading universities are surely examples of such environments, and this is probably a contributing factor to the sector wide fervour of axing funding for the humanities in general.
Hope you are successful with reversing the decision.
Stand up against managerialism.
A great department that is essential for a serious university