Letter from Unknown Supporter #3

And yet another...

(sent to Oppose LCC Course Redundancies on the 23rd of November 2009)

Is He Qualified To Speak On This?

The Rector, now apparently established in the august world of academe, is using his new-found respectability in the public sector to enlighten others about “Maintaining a successful balance between encouraging individual creativity and developing constitutional consensus.”

Did you read that correctly?

Maintaining a successful balance between encouraging individual creativity and developing constitutional consensus

Can’t help thinking this is a tad ironic.

The intellectual snobbery, which is resulting in the School of Creative Enterprise being destroyed, and which supports whatever vision he thinks he has, does not really qualify Mr Carrington to speak on developing constitutional consensus.

Neither does riding roughshod over legally binding procedures and failing to take the staff body with him, on his journey to who-knows-where. This is presumably not the practice this conference is meant to support, if it has a real purpose.

You might fool the great and the good, but you ain’t fooling anybody here, Nigel.

This latest jolly also begs a very obvious question: who, in their wildest imaginings, would seriously suggest that Mr Carrington (he hasn’t got his knighthood just yet) is qualified to speak on this? You do have to wonder, is this just another opportunity for self-promotion on the back the good name of the University, such as it was.

Still, Zurich is nice this time of year and it’s handy for checking on your Swiss Bank Account, if you happen to be in the area.

Pass me the sick bag … I’m feeling rather nauseous.

http://www.elia-artschools.org/leadership/index