Il primo “super università” del Regno Unito sarà creata come due unione dal 2026

I’m sure there’ll be twice as many staff members to help deal with twice as many students.

When you combine two turds, you just end up with a bigger turd.

“Under the proposed name of London and South East University Group”

Please tell me that’s not what they’ll end up going with because that sounds really clunky

It is not that long ago that the constituent colleges of the University of London broke away and became universities in their own right. Something similar happened to the University of Wales.

So it is clearly wrong to describe this merger as the first super-university, and there are clear precedents for it to break up again.

Given the distances involved, I’d imagine scope for savings to be quite limited. Sure, some duplication can be removed, but while the new super-university needs only one Head of Paperclips on £500,000 a year, each of the remote (from each other) sites will need its own Deputy Head of Paperclips.

Some less popular subjects might be consolidated onto a single site but by definition almost, they will have small departments so again, not much will be saved in the long term, and payoffs will negate any savings in the short term.

Closing Greenwich altogether might be more attractive on paper as it is an expensive site, but you can’t do that because London SE10 looks better on the prospectus, especially for the lucrative overseas market.

No, sorry, I’m not seeing it.

The last gasp of a dying university. Kent has been fucked since Brexit stopped all the EU students, they were totally dependent on that money. They’ve had to resort to closing entire departments over the last few years as well.

I would say it’s a shame but it’s not really. The quality of teaching (on my course at least) was shit. I learnt more on my year in industry than I ever learnt in lectures. Won’t be sad to see them go