[Reallyopenuniannounce] Letter / Email Campaign

[Mayblin, Lucy]

A message from the Campaign for the Public University

Dear All,

The National Campaign for the Public University is initiating a letter
writing campaign to protest against the silence of Russell Group VCs in
light of the proposed cuts to the funding of higher education and to
urge them to speak out on this matter. There is a list of email
addresses for all Russell Group VCs at the bottom of this email - you
can just copy and paste this list into your email. A suggested template
for the letter is also provided below, please adapt as you see fit.

When you write, **Please BCC in the Campaign at publicuniversity at live.co.uk **

Please do forward this on to colleagues and let them know that if they
would like to join the Jiscmail list for the Campaign for the Public
University, that they can do so via this website:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CAMPAIGNFORTHEPUBLICU
NIVERSITY&A=1

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Dear Vice-Chancellors,

I am writing to express my deep concern that, as Russell Group
Vice-Chancellors, you have welcomed a proposed 'premium fee' that will
nearly treble the cost of their education for students, while removing
the public support for courses in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. This is associated with a 'soft capped fee' which will bring a
significant cut in income for what you are pleased to regard as
'non-elite' universities. Their fate is apparently not a matter of
concern, despite the evident excellence of research and teaching across
the sector (as demonstrated in the RAE and National Student Survey).

Your silence over the philistinism of the Browne Report and the absence
of any defence of the public value of Universities on your part is also
striking. The term 'elite' implies leadership, but the Russell Group has
failed to express anything other than self interest. In the process, you
have set yourself against your students and many of your staff.

I urge you to speak out in support of the public value of universities
and against the proposed privatisation of the higher education sector.

Yours faithfully,



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Russell Group e-mail addresses are below:
 d.eastwood at bham.ac.uk; vc.eric.thomas at bristol.ac.uk;
v-c.office.online at admin.cam.ac.uk; FarnhamS at Cardiff.ac.uk;
principal at ed.ac.uk; A.Muscatelli at admin.gla.ac.uk;
K.ONions at imperial.ac.uk; principal at kcl.ac.uk; j.pharaoh at adm.leeds.ac.uk;
Howard.Newby at liv.ac.uk; h.davies at lse.ac.uk;
nancy.rothwell at manchester.ac.uk; chris.brink at ncl.ac.uk;
david.greenaway at nottingham.ac.uk; andrew.hamilton at admin.ox.ac.uk;
vc.office at qub.ac.uk; vc at sheffield.ac.uk; A.M.Wilson at southampton.ac.uk;
Nigel.Thrift at warwick.ac.uk; provost at ucl.ac.uk;
piatt.pa at russellgroup.ac.uk                                      


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