UCU responds to Imperial College rector's sudden resignation
16 November 2009
UCU today said that the new rector at Imperial College had to look again at plans to make damaging cuts to the university's Faculty of Medicine and to develop policies that re-build staff morale, which has been badly damaged over the last few months.
The union's comments follow today's sudden resignation of Sir Roy Anderson, the Rector of Imperial College, and the announcement that, from 1 January 2010, Sir Keith O'Nions FRS, currently Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial, will step up to be the Acting Rector.
Commenting on the news that Sir Roy Anderson had resigned, the UCU branch president at Imperial College, Dr Michael McGarvey, said: 'We hope that Sir Roy Anderson's replacement will take the opportunity of coming to a new role to look again at plans for serious and damaging cuts in the Faculty of Medicine. Imperial, justifiably, has a strong and proud international reputation in medicine and it should not be put at risk by these cuts.
'We look forward to engaging with Sir Keith O'Nions as soon as possible and we hope he will look to engage more positively with the union on the planned cuts in medicine and on other areas of industrial relations.'
Commenting on the news that Sir Roy Anderson had resigned, the UCU branch president at Imperial College, Dr Michael McGarvey, said: 'We hope that Sir Roy Anderson's replacement will take the opportunity of coming to a new role to look again at plans for serious and damaging cuts in the Faculty of Medicine. Imperial, justifiably, has a strong and proud international reputation in medicine and it should not be put at risk by these cuts.
'We look forward to engaging with Sir Keith O'Nions as soon as possible and we hope he will look to engage more positively with the union on the planned cuts in medicine and on other areas of industrial relations.'
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