screenonline anyone?

Whilst googling on some problems we've been having with the BFI Screenonline service I came across the Film Archive Action web site; evidently the work of the disgruntled staff who now find themselves the target of "modernisation". The Amicus Statement of Protest therein contains an absolute corker of a paragraph which resonates with those of us who also have the misfortune to be subject to the managerialist drivel that is now washing over large parts of the UK Higher Education "market". Here it is in full. Enjoy!





"We are gravely alarmed by the burgeoning tier of managerial staff whose only qualifying experience seems to be in the area of ‘organisational change’ (as if this were a virtuous end in itself). We have been brought near to despair to hear the language of education, cultural evaluation and public service drowned out by unintelligible managerialist platitudes whose purpose seems to be to marginalise knowledge and expertise in favour of an abstract and self-perpetuating rhetoric of ‘change’. We deplore the adoption of a management style which encourages a disregard of agreed policies, lack of transparency and communication, and tacitly encourages harassment."