Article: Academics vent anger

Canterbury University academics showed their emotions at proposed College of Arts cuts during a staff meeting yesterday.

Pro-vice-chancellor (arts) Ken Strongman was challenged over the relevance of the planned six-week consultation period.

"You can forgive us for thinking that anything anybody has to add to the debate is meaningless," one staff member said.

"Doesn't it strike you as slightly problematic that you have been working on this for 16 months and you have given us six weeks?" another academic, theatre studies lecturer Greta Bond, said.

Academics also challenged the view that theatre studies was not a core subject, say- ing New Zealand's other universities regarded it as a core ...

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