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Faculty Firings and Financial Troubles at the University of Sussex

Brian Leiter

There is lots of information at this site.  Although it does not appear yet that Philosophy faculty are being fired (though Philosophy is a unit clearly under scrutiny), among the bizarre decisions is to end "early modern history" as a topic for research at the "university" (I think one would have to put "University" of Sussex in quotes going forward–the idea of a purported "research" university declaring "early mmodern history" as not a subject-matter to be covered is quite something).  These are bad times for higher education in the U.K. 

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  1. anon

    As a young academic who has just left the UK, I feel extremely relieved to be outside this mess. I have a sinking feeling that more stories like this and the KCL debacle will be appearing in the next couple of months, as more universities start to publish their budgets for the coming years.

    What's more depressing is that, however bad things may be now – with forced funding cuts and Peter Madelson's misguided plan to prostitute out British academia to industry – I can only imagine things getting worse under the inevitably incoming Conservative government. They're currently building an election manifesto on the promise of making cuts to public spending. (It's a small consolation that David Cameron has recently been talking about the need to become more elitist about our education; but that just means that all universities will get hit, and the 'lesser' ones will get hit worse.)

    I feel for my country.

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