Dear all,
I am writing to update you on the current situation at LCC
Lecture Theatre Occupation
You will be aware that there has been protest activity in the Main Lecture Theatre since Monday evening. The protesting group is not part of the recognised Student Union, SUARTS, and compromises self-appointed students and at least one prominent member who is not a student at UAL. The University management respects students right to protest, but not at the expense of unduly disrupting College life for students, staff and visitors. We are seeking a resolution to the situation. As always, our priority is to ensure that the College runs normally and that any disruption for students and staff is kept to an absolute minimum.
As in any time of change, it is inevitable that there is a certain amount of rumour in circulation. So I felt it important to write to staff to keep you abreast of matters.
Communications
We have already introduced improved arrangements for students who are affected by the restructuring to speak directly to staff about their concerns. These inculde daily drop-in sessions, regular group discussions and fortnightly transition forums. Senior Management are also meeting with groups of students from affected courses every Wednesday afternoon on a three week rota system.
Full details are on the website http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/docs/new developments.contacts.pdf
Course closure
In refocus the College's academic direction and mission, and addressing the deficit of 1.3m Pound, 16 courses will be discontinued and therefore not recruit beyond this academic year. No other courses have been identified for closure. However, the course offering across the University is kept under review, as it would be at any university.
Staff redundancies
Currently 37 staff at the College are, regrettably, facing the prospect of compulsory redundancy. We are continuing to work with HR and the unions to consider all options for affected staff, including redeployment opportunities, in order to reduce this figure to the absolute minimum.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your patience and commitment during this challenging time.
I will continue to use the e-bulletin to email all staff on a regular basis to update you.
Professor Sandra Kemp
Head of College
London College of Communications: Elephant and Castle: London SE1 6SB
Tel. 020 75146673
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Dear Sandra. It is your own behaviour that disrupted the College life. And you decided to put a term to the peaceful and non-disruptive occupation of the courses and lectures on an open day!!! Therefore putting your own mismanagement exposed to the media and visitors: What kind of professionalism is that? It is time that you face your own responsability, instead of blaming a peaceful student and alumni movement.
ReplyDeleteYou can cut Internet connections. But this is the age of transparancy Madam: we have mobiles, we will still be able to communicate...
Apparently you still don't know how to do so. You need a serious update on the technologies of communication available today. To bad for someone who is in charge of the London College of COMMUNICATION.
Oppose - keep up the good work, more of the LCC staff are behind you than you might think.
ReplyDeleteShame on you Sandra Kemp and Nigel Carrington: cutting the students from air-con and threatening their own safety : wow now your are showing your true nature. One word for you : DESPICABLE !
ReplyDelete"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your patience and committment during this challenging time."
ReplyDeleteWho are you kidding, Sandra? Staff are neither patient nor committed to any of the changes that have been made since Ms Kemp came into office. She has made it impossible for staff to stay committed. The only thing we are committed to is our students, whose engagement and actions we applaud, and our academic principles.
Times are indeed challenging - for the dominant order.
'In refocus the College's academic direction and mission, and addressing the deficit of 1.3m Pound, 16 courses will be discontinued and therefore not recruit beyond this academic year.'
ReplyDelete1. This doesn't make sense, cancelling some of the most profitable courses would not benefit the college financially at all. An one with half a brain can work out the maths
'No other courses have been identified for closure. However, the course offering across the University is kept under review, as it would be at any university' -
2. None of the above would happen to any university. If a course is to be cancelled, staffs will be hired for another 3 more years after the actual closure of the course. This is nothing like it in our case. The staffs are being fired 3 years before the courses actually terminate. Personally, I think all members of the management team should be taught how to run a university before actually running it, or at least do some research
Management seem to be taking lessons from China and Iran by turning off the air-conditioning and blocking internet access, dispicable, not in a free society!
ReplyDeleteshame on you, Sandra... you are the only one bitch in our uni, who disturbs the study process... how could you write such stupid things?
ReplyDeleteas i know SU also partisipated in occupation of the Main LT, also, about which visitors do you talk? about those, who are thinking of applying to LCC?? they should be informed about the current situanion now... If i new about such shitty things before, i would not pay the tuition fees for this year and would transfer to another uni... now i don't have such an opportunity. Thank you Sandra for your PERFECT management.
big thanks to oppose for their actions! i'm with you, guys!!!!
published letter from a staff member at lcc who defended students from heavy handed security
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I am writing this piece to express my deepest concerns regarding events that took place during the afternoon of 11 November 2009 at the London College of Communication.
Shortly after 1.00pm I was on my way to Reprographics on the ground floor just passing Reception when a student approached me and asked me if I was aware of what was happening outside the Main Lecture Theatre.
I indicated that I was not aware and accompanied her in the direction of the MLT to observe, initially, a group of students standing in front of me and beyond them by the entrance doors to the MLT two security guards bending over three other students sitting on the floor with their backs against the lecture theatre doors.
As I approached I had a clear view of both security guards physically starting to manhandle the students sitting on the floor in order, presumably, to shift them out of the way. In a raised voice I said ‘excuse me, what do you think you are doing’.
letter in full here: http://www.artslondonnews.co.uk/20091112_jonathan-leader-letter
Roses are red,
ReplyDeletewe are all blue
Kemp is a loony
U know it is true
bravo Jonathan Leader
ReplyDeleteI feel very sorry students at the LCC have to deal with Sandra Kemp at any capacity. She's absolutely unprofessional and was badly unliked where she was before, and where I study, the RCA. Make sure you get enought evidence to make HER redundant.
ReplyDeleteSandra Kemp has a very murky past. For what it's worth, when she lectured at Glasgow University in the 1980s, she spent years claiming to have serious health problems which were fictitious - but got her out of many duties. When she was eventually obliged to move on, she produced accusations against one of her colleagues in order to secure a payout. In fact she was a fantasist, and eventually not even her former friends there could believe a word she said.
ReplyDeleteGiven recent events at London College of Communication, with more staff forced out and claims of bullying and mismanagement, it sounds like history continues to repeat. It seems that HE employers are not very thorough in researching the track records of those they appoint.
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