In the midst of the global Covid-19 crisis, London South Bank University (LSBU) has announced a drastic programme of course closures following a review of its teaching portfolio by the university executive.
Seven courses* in the School Law and Social Sciences have been closed with immediate effect, with 16 teaching staff placed at risk of redundancy. There are also plans for a wholesale restructuring of undergraduate courses, mainly in the School of Arts and Creative Industries (ACI) where all existing degrees (and a number of subjects areas and specialisms) are due to be phased out from September 2022.
These plans mean teaching staff are now required to redesign or ‘re-profile’ their courses in just 4-5 weeks to launch new/re-profiled degrees for 2022/23, or face ‘decommissioning’. The threat of closure comes after an extremely difficult year for all staff with already increased workloads under the effect of the pandemic and a local IT outage.
There has been no consultation with staff about the nature and extent of the portfolio review; the decision-making process has lacked transparency, and the criteria and rationales for these plans are unclear.
The targeted disciplines have a vital role to play within the modern university at a time when decolonising the curriculum, closing the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) student attainment gap, diversifying the arts and creative industries, and championing the UN sustainable development goals are considered more urgent. LSBU draws from a vibrant and diverse community. As a modern university with a high proportion of BAME students, it is vital that the University offers a broad and critical curriculum that empowers students to pursue a range of futures, rather than focusing on a narrow set of economically defined outcomes. The course closures and re-profiling are a direct threat to critical thinking and creativity – an attack on the arts, humanities and critical social sciences.
Please sign this petition to express your solidarity with staff at LSBU and your support for the vital role played by arts, humanities and social sciences at LSBU and in HE more generally. Please share widely within your networks.
We also encourage you to send your emails of support to LSBU’s vice-chancellor David Phoenix (phoenixd@lsbu.ac.uk, please cc lsbu-ucu@lsbu.ac.uk) demanding a reversal of the course closures, a commitment to no compulsory redundancies, to keep arts, humanities and social sciences courses at LSBU and a more democratic and transparent decision making based on meaningful consultation with staff and representative unions.
*BA History, BA History with Politics, BA Human Geography, BA Urban and Environmental Planning PT, MSc Refugee Studies, MSc Development Studies, MSc Education for Sustainability.
We call on the university to reverse plans to close courses and to commit to making no compulsory redundancies.
London South Bank University: stop course closure and redundancies
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The University of Huddersfield
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Surrey
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London
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Swansea
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King's College London
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University of Leicester
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University of Southampton
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University of Huddersfield
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University of Bradford
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Manchester
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London South Bank University
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Hammersmith
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Kings College London
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University of Winchester
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King's College London
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UCL
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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UCL
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King's College London
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Camden
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London
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University
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University of Central Lancashire
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Durham University
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University of Bristol
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Isle Of Wight
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University of Cambridge
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Glamorgan
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King's College London
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King's College London
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London
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University of Glasgow
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Heriot-Watt
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University of Lincoln
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Lincolnshire
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University of Sussex
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LSBU
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University of Sunderland
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LSBU
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Kingston University
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London South Bank University
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University of the West of England
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London South Bank University
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UCL
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University of Derby
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Queen Mary, University of London
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Royal Holloway
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University of Salford
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283
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UCL
282
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Institute of Development Studies
281
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Institute of Development Studies
280
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Institute of Development Studies
279
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University of Sussex
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University of Sussex
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Southbank
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Harlow
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United Kingdom
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University of Sussex
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Pharmaceutical Industry
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Reading
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UWE Bristol
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UWE Bristol
269
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Institute of Development Studies
268
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Institute of Development Studies
267
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266
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University of Warwick
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264
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UCL
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Herefordshire
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University of Gloucestershire
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New York
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LSBU
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UCL
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London South Bank University
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London
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UCL
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London South Bank University
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University of Brighton
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Berkshire
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Glamorgan
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East Sussex
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UCL
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Queen Mary University of London
246
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UCL
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UCL
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Institute of Development Studies
243
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England
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IDS, University of Sussex
241
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UCL
240
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MLC - King's College London
239
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Institute of Development Studies
238
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London
237
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236
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LSBU
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LSBU
234
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UCL
233
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LSBU
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231
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LSBU
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IDS
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Kent
228
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227
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University Of Leeds
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University of Chester
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Deal
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IDS
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Forest schools educator
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