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		<title>How savings were calculated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems little doubt that, thanks to the incompetent bankers, savings will have to be made in every university, including UCL. &#160;The best that can be done may be to try to ensure that the savings are made fairly, with minimum damage to UCL.&#160; How the savings are distributed within UCL is an internal matter,&#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=137&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Savings will have to be made, regardless of how they are distributed within each university. It is impossible to calculate the actual amounts that could be saved from each sort of central service, because no attempt seems to have been made to check whether they are spending wisely, and no attempt has been made to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=154&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I still remember my pride . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This strangely moving essay was submitted by a member of academic staff in the Faculty of Life Sciences. The fact that they wish to remain anonymous should, itself, convey a message about the extent to which staff feel intimidated, even bullied. It shows too, the harm that can be done to an institution by bad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=129&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A letter to the provost, Malcolm Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 10 March 2010, a letter was sent to Malcolm Grant, provost of UCL, by the heads of the four research departments in the Biosciences division in the Faculty of Life Sciences. The remarkable thing about this letter was the unanimity of the support for it, It was signed by 142 academics in these departments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=118&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary results from the survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make your views count. Complete the &#8216;alternative survey&#8216; (very quick; five questions, two minutes, and totally anonymous). How would you rate the change in morale of staff in FLS over the last three years? The replies vary from &#8216;disastrous&#8217; to &#8216;bad&#8217;. Click to enlarge It is a little over a week since the short survey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=68&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial management at UCL: an academic perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding UCL finances is a challenge even when one has what appears to be reliable information. My perspective is that of an academic in a Science Department at UCL, who recently participated in a time-consuming and detailed analysis of income and expenditure, to find out why our Department runs at a deficit. By way of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=41&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The academic view</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make your views count. Complete the &#8216;alternative survey&#8216; (very quick; five questions, two minutes, and totally anonymous). &#160; Last week, academic staff in UCL’s Faculty of Life Sciences were astonished to get a letter from the Dean, Mary Collins, stating that “it seems likely that the only way we can achieve a balanced budget now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=54&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some questions about finances</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a special meeting of the Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) on Wednesday 21 January 2010 we were given some details of the Faculty finances. There was a widespread feeling at the meeting that we still didn&#8217;t know enough to discuss sensibly the justice, or otherwise, of the setting up of a committee to consider [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=26&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on teaching biological Sciences at UCL. Steve Jones</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This document is an attempt to summarise our success or otherwise of undergraduate teaching in the Division of Life Sciences. At this time of financial difficulty we need to remind ourselves that we already invest much less in teaching than do our competitors – and that this is reflected by external assessments of our competence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ucllifesciences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11495330&amp;post=21&amp;subd=ucllifesciences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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