January 14, 2009

Finally tackling the issue...

I see that 'Times Higher Education' is finally tackling the issue head on, they've got a rather interesting blog going that is apparently written by a bullied academic: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404992&c=1

Anonymous

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is such an important step to have taken.

Having read it just now I can immediately recognise the signs... the colleagues who think it's just a personality clash... the dictatorial style... the undermining....

Aphra Behn

Anonymous said...

The new "academic team leader" (whatever happened to "chairman" or "head"?) could well have been my own former department head or his fawning assistant.

People like that aren't completely satisfied until they control every aspect of the lives of their subordinates and they've made those poor souls completely miserable. The reason why they do it often has next to nothing to do with actual academic matters.

At the place I used to teach at, nothing was done unless it was political. It wasn't political unless it was personal. It wasn't personal unless it damaged someone. It wasn't damaging unless it ruined that person's life.

Ah, the nobility of higher education....

El Cid

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure that this isn't just a fictitious theoretical blog -- a work of creative writing, rather than being a true account of bullying at a real institution. Why didn't they just publish some various and real stories from the bullied academics blog?

Anonymous said...

I would willingly release the details of my story if I felt it would help... but I think I'd be more likely to find myself in an even more impossible situation than I am already....

Aphra Behn