Campaign fights closure threat to uni department.Byline: Tony Collins STAFF and students at a Birmingham university Birmingham University, at Birmingham, England; founded 1900. It has faculties of arts, science, engineering, medicine and dentistry, commerce and social science, law, and education and continuing studies. are fighting plans to close one of its departments which could see more than a dozen academic jobs go. A petition has been launched to prevent the Department of Sociology Noun 1. department of sociology - the academic department responsible for teaching and research in sociology sociology department academic department - a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject from being closed by the University of Birmingham Due to Birmingham's role as a centre of light engineering, the university traditionally had a special focus on science, engineering and commerce, as well as coal mining. It now teaches a full range of academic subjects and has five-star rating for teaching and research in several in Edgbaston. Campaigners opposed to the closure plan claim a review of the sociology department had led to the complete scrapping of the Media, Culture and Society degree programme with the Sociology degree programme "transferred" to Social Policy. Staff and students fighting the closure plan claim this would result in just three staff being retained and the rest - 14 academics and two support staff - made redundant. An online petition urges people to support by lobbying the University Senate on November 18 and the institution's governing council on November 26. No-one was immediately available for comment from the university. Visit the petition at www. keepsociologyatbirmingham.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion