A&H is reviewing consultation feedback, but there’s little confidence there’ll be meaningful change, and the proposal is likely to degrade existing student wellbeing support. The EASE implementation appears driven by senior leaders’ role-building/power-building, not the staff delivering the services or the academics and students who rely on them.
The process has been cack-handed so far. Some at-risk G7s were contacted without Department Managers (often their line managers!) being informed or copied in. As only a subset of G7s received this secret message, managers learned of it through word of mouth and were forced into the ludicrous position of having to ask their staff whether they had been told they were at risk of redundancy.
For a small Faculty, this lack of planning and care is striking and reflects a wider A&H culture that is careless about people and staff wellbeing. We’re just all supposed to pretend that this isn’t true to save senior Faculty figures’ blushes.
