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Linguistics courses axed | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. Students and staff are campaigning to save the discipline. In a decision that was made public to staff and students in week 10 of the spring term, management withdrew the undergraduate Linguistics programme at Sussex. This is despite the fact that this programme:. Is ranked 2nd in country in the Independent’s Good University guide, with an overall score of 99.1 (and ranked 8th in the Times). While current linguistics cohorts (72 students) will be taught out to completion of th...
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Universities cutting courses nationwide | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. Universities cutting courses nationwide. But students and staff are asking, ‘Where has all the money gone? If the VC can add 9% to his already large salary, why can ordinary lecturers not have 8%? Responses to “Universities cutting courses nationwide”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out.
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Final year students: we need your help | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. Final year students: we need your help. Most final year students have taken part in the National Student Survey during the last few months. The Save Linguistics campaign is asking all final year students to withdraw their responses from this survey in protest at the decision to close Linguistics courses at Sussex. At no point will your identity be shared with the university. Final year students can opt out of the National Student Survey at http:/ tinyurl.com/nssoptout. Why is ...
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So what happened to Linguistics at Sussex? | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. So what happened to Linguistics at Sussex? The following post was written in June 2009:. To all Sussex Linguistics supporters,. Today, University Senate, the highest academic decision making body within the University, met and discussed Linguistics. Even after they had agreed to put it on the agenda, USSU and staff had to fight to make sure it got discussed and that staff were briefed. This is not the end of the campaign, as the Vice Chancellor, though refsued to apologise, ha...
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About | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress. Responses to “About”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Why is our university cutting Linguistics? | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. Why is our university cutting Linguistics? UCU is organising a protest for jobs and education. If university managers really cared about the sustainability of our institution in any meaningful sense, they would be up in arms about New Labour’s creeping privatisation of higher education. Instead they opt to toe the line. As a result it falls to us to hold university management and the government to account. This article originally appeared in student magazine The Pulse. I found...
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Campaign building momentum | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. The Save Linguistics campaign has been building since the day we found out about the closure last term. Our Facebook group quickly attracted thousands of members and signatures on the online petition. On the last day of term we held a well attended demonstration in Library Square where staff, students and members of USSU spoke about the effects of closing the Linguistics department, and the reasons we need to fight to keep it. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Why Linguistics matters | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. To ease the outrage of the cutting of Linguistics, university management has assured the cuts are part of a longer-term strategy to make a sustainable future for English Language teaching and research . But Linguistics is not English Language. A sustainable future for English does not have to come at the expense of Linguistics. Linguistics is the study of languages. It is crucial to industries such as voice-recognition and translation software. Linguistics underpins sp...In a ...
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October | 2009 | Save Linguistics at Sussex
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Save Linguistics at Sussex. Archive for October, 2009. So what happened to Linguistics at Sussex? The following post was written in June 2009:. To all Sussex Linguistics supporters,. Today, University Senate, the highest academic decision making body within the University, met and discussed Linguistics. Even after they had agreed to put it on the agenda, USSU and staff had to fight to make sure it got discussed and that staff were briefed. This is not the end of the campaign, as the Vice Chancellor, thou...
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