Dear Ian,
There will also be a letter of protest from us as soon as you send details.
Members of the list might be amused, or perhaps not, that at one HE
institution who shall remain unnamed, the official term for the same
initiative (closing Departments and laying off staff) is a military-style
euphemism: 'Operation Headroom.'
In diesem Sinne,
Susanne
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Hon. Secretary, The English Goethe Society
Editor, Publications of the English Goethe Society
Department of German
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel.+44 (0)20 7679 7120 (office); +44 (0)20 7679 3103 (direct)
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> From: "Elizabeth A. Andersen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Elizabeth A. Andersen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:13:10 +0100
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Closure Leicester
>
> Dear Ian
>
> I shall write to support colleagues in Leicester as the representative on UCML
> for Germanic Languages as soon as you provide the name and contact details to
> whom the letter should be sent.
>
> With best wishes
>
> Elizabeth
> ____________________________
> Dr Elizabeth A Andersen
> Head of School
> School of Modern Languages
> Newcastle University
> NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
> NE1 7RU
> Tel: (+44) 0191 222 7526
> FAX: (+44) 0191 222 5442
> Director of NE Routes into Languages Consortium
> www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northeast
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JISCmail German Studies List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Colvin
>> Sent: 11 September 2009 13:23
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Closure
>>
>> WIGS will certainly want to support this and I am happy to
>> write on behalf of the organisation. Let's be in touch. I'd
>> also like to protest as an individual and Edinburgh as a dept,
>> and other members of this list will probably want to, too --
>> Ian, could you send the entire list the best address to write
>> to, email and postal? I'll forward it to the WIGS mailing list
>> when it arrives.
>> Lots of good wishes,
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>>
>> Professor Sarah Colvin
>> Mason Chair of German
>> European Languages and Cultures
>> University of Edinburgh
>> David Hume Tower
>> George Square
>> Edinburgh EH8 9JX
>> Tel. ++ 131 650 3630
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
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>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered
>> in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frank Finlay [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 10 September 2009 14:32
>> To: 'Ian Roberts'; [log in to unmask]
>> Cc: 'Sarah Colvin'
>> Subject: RE: Closure
>>
>> Dear Ian
>>
>> I was saddened to read your email.
>>
>> Perhaps you and I might liaise on an appropriate response on
>> behalf of the AGS (formerly CUTG) to your VC in advance of
>> your Senate meeting?
>>
>> The organization attempted something similar on behalf of
>> colleagues at Belfast not so very long ago, sadly to no avail,
>> and I can imagine that WIGS would want to put its weight
>> behind your campaign, too.
>>
>> Any detail you can send me relating to the firmer ground of
>> recent years would be useful data and grist to the mill of any
>> argument.
>>
>> You might also like to liaise with David Robb at Belfast in
>> terms of what might be done locally by way of mobilizing
>> protest, not least amongst your student body.
>>
>> In haste but with best wishes,
>> Frank
>>
>> Professor Frank Finlay, President Association for German
>> Studies (formerly CUTG)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JISCmail German Studies List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Roberts
>> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:40 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Closure
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Members of this list will I am sure be disappointed to hear
>> that another UK HE institution is seeking to 'slim down' its
>> language provision in the near future:
>> management at the University of Leicester have informed me of
>> their intention to cease recruiting to German degrees after
>> the arrival of the 2009/10 intake in a couple of weeks. The
>> department would, consequently, disappear at the end of the
>> 2012/12 academic year.
>>
>> German at Leicester has been under threat, on and off, for
>> some five years now, but recently we have seen steady growth
>> in applicants (more than doubling our intake since the 2005
>> nadir) and felt that we were finally moving onto firmer ground.
>>
>> The proposal will be put to Senate next month, and the whole
>> School of Modern Languages at the University is throwing its
>> weight behind the campaign to save German. If members of the
>> list would like to contribute to this campaign by making their
>> feelings known to the University authorities, I would of
>> course be extremely grateful.
>>
>> Yours frustratedly,
>>
>> Ian Roberts
>> Director of German Studies
>> School of Modern Languages
>> University of Leicester
>> University Road
>> Leicester LE1 7RH
>>
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