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Keele University(基尔大学)
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一键免费快速申请文章正文综述详细专业照片新闻校友录已获Offer学生资料英国基尔大学（Keele）的人力资源管理和劳动关系系因为教学和生源质量难以保证，即将被取消.申请2008年入学的同学，请注意.
Threatened Job Cuts at Keele University
As you may already know the Senior Management at Keele University, UK,have recently released details of a Consultation Document to introducejob cuts and course closures in the School of Economic and ManagementStudies. Alongside proposed cuts in the Economics Department, HRM/IR hasbeen highlighted as an area of concern because of 'disappointing'recruitment figures and in particular attention has been directed atteaching resources in the subject field of Industrial Relations (IR).The University's review claims that there is a need 'for fewer staff andthe need for different staff with the appropriate skill set to supportthe new structure'. It is further suggested, that of the 12 academicstaff teaching in the area of Human Resource Management (HRM) and IR, 10staff have 'skills and attributes that do not fit with the proposed newstructure'. These 10 staff are deemed to be qualified only in the fieldof IR, and by implication, do not have the 'skill sets' to teach thewider remit of HRM. Furthermore, the Consultation Document identifiesthat only three areas of research (Organisation Behaviour, Economics andHRM/IR) are active in the School, but that 'they are small and notsignificant enough to support staff costs from research income'. TheUniversity is proposing job cuts and restructuring of courses throughoutthe School which will address these issues, with the proviso thatredundancies will occur 'where there is a clear business need tore-profile the skill sets as a basis for growth and vitality'. All thestand-alone courses in HRM/IR at undergraduate, part-and full-timepostgraduate, certificate levels are to be abolished. There is only asmall replacement window on the new courses.
最近进展：目前全英１６３位教授、副教授签署抗议信，反对基尔大学取消人力资源管理和劳动关系系，但此举能否改变校方决定，还需拭目以待.
Morning Star January 29, 2008 Tuesday
The proposed closure of the Department of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at Keele University marks the end of the last department of a university in Britain with "industrial relations" in its title.
Along with the closure, the university wants to make redundant 10 of the 12 staff who teach and study industrial relations there.
So, what's happening at Keele marks another blow in the slow and lingering death of the availability of degree courses in industrial relations in British universities.
This is highly ironic at many levels. Most obviously, the current Labour government's attempts to impose public-sector wage restraint from 2007 to 2010 is reminiscent of its predecessor government's attempt to do the same in the 1970s. This is an issue of current and historical interest.
And this example is emblematic of the increasingly contentious relationship between the unions and the "new" Labour government.
All this suggests that students need to be taught about these issues in order to provide a rounded understanding of why these things are happening.
But, hidden from wider view, is that the department at Keele has, over the years, provided a tremendous service to the trade union movement in Britain by offering part-time and distant learning courses for its activists.
It has provided these activists with the critical intellectual tools to take on and defeat management.
Since the Tory onslaught of the 1980s, universities have been increasingly slanted towards servicing neoliberalism and employers' interests. They've been establishing business and management schools offering degrees in management and human resource management. Any sense in which universities have provided services for the other side of industry - workers and their unions - has all but vanished.
In classic management style, Keele University has railroaded these proposals through, identifying that the academics concerned now have the "wrong" skills necessary.
If you are a union activist or have benefited from studying industrial relations at Keele, take the logical step of writing to the university demanding that it stops its act of wanton destruction of a valuable resource and service for the union movement.
