Articles revealed in The Eye are written by a workforce of contributors and edited by the multi-award successful former BBC information and present affairs reporter, Phil Parry.
A spoof resignation message circulated amongst employees at a prime Welsh college which has hit the headlines for all of the flawed causes, and the place workers say they’re “too frightened to speak” publicly, hours after The Eye first broke the story about its controversial head asserting final month she was to stop.
In a wickedly humorous means, it purports to supply different causes for the ‘successes’ trumpeted by Cardiff Metropolitan College’s (CMU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Cara Aitchison, who dramatically informed employees she was to go, though she is simply in her late fifties.
In her official departure communication, Professor Aitchison focused on these ‘triumphs’, though she admitted her establishment was a “work in progress”, and that her tenure got here amid “…essentially the most difficult of circumstances and at important private value…”
However the parody of it makes clear there may have been a unique rationale explaining them:
Pricey Colleagues,
I’m writing to tell you of my intention to retire from my put up as President and Vice-Chancellor a yr from now.
Throughout my time I’ve presided over many successes that I’d identical to to remind you about right here.
My tenure has been exceptional.
For many who are unfamiliar with my report, please take time to think about how I’ve single-handedly remodeled this college. If it wasn’t for me the world of CMU can be quite a bit worse off.
The courageous determination to make over 200 redundancies after which rehire the identical quantity was a grasp stroke. Okay, I spent over £8,000,000 on redundancy funds and a small fortune on pressured confidentiality agreements however that was cash effectively spent.
To be clear, the long-standing strategic vacancies in Estates, Advertising, Enterprise Engagement, Library & Info Companies, College Secretary and Worldwide are not any reflection of my management or the repute of CMU throughout the tutorial neighborhood.
Any suggestion that I’ve been liable for a number of grievances is fully false. Fully.
The expansion in scholar numbers and corresponding college turnover has been right down to me alone. It has had completely nothing to with the astounding pure progress in 18 yr previous candidates or the sector broad progress in Indian and African scholar numbers.
I wish to thanks, the CMU neighborhood, to your unstinting loyalty and assist.
See you on the opposite aspect!
Cara
Maybe this satirical announcement about why Professor Aitchison is to depart, ought to be learn alongside the actual one!
The recollections of our Editor Phil Parry’s extraordinary a long time lengthy award-winning profession in journalism (who has adopted the disaster at CMU from the beginning) as he was gripped by the incurable disabling situation Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), have been launched within the e book ‘A GOOD STORY’. Order the e book now!
Publication of one other e book, nonetheless, was refused, as a result of it was to have included names.
