The Faculty of Life Sciences is supposed to be towards the end of their EASE implementation period. As part of this process, the support for PGRs has been upended despite assurances of an extension to the implementation period to ensure that there would be minimal disruption. People with expertise have been lost and positions remain unfilled. Practically this means that PGR students and their supervisors who need administrative support have not been recieving it. More concretely, students needing to take medical leave have no system to use to ensure it is logged. Messages of concern from students go unanswered, other than with general broadcasts stating that their complaints are causing upset to overworked and understaffed administrators.
Support for PhD students lost
