please_don't_close_glasgow_university_school_of_nursing

I am strongly opposed to any cuts to courses at the University of Glasgow. I am disgusted by the manner in which the University's Senior Management Group have dealth with the whole issue - many staff and students first heard of the proposals from an article in the Glasgow Herald, consultation panels for the threatened courses are headed by members of the same SMG who made the proposals in the first place and the SMG have refused calls by both the University Senate and the Student Representative Council to include student reps on consultation panels. In addition, the SMG have already begun the consultation process on a number of courses, despite a call by the University Senate to postpone any decision until after the Scottish Government elections in May and until the level of savings made by voluntary redundancies is confirmed.

In the case of nursing, the justification offered by the SMG for the proposed scrapping of the Nursing course was that UoG Nursing Graduates are 'struggling to find employment in Nursing'. This is simply not true - in 2010 UoG Nursing Graduates enjoyed a 99% employment rate, with 100% employability in 2009. This shows either poor research or blatant lies from the SMG, neither of which would be at all encouraging particularly as it is the University's Vice Principal who is heading the consultation panel for Nursing.