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Oliver Sturdy tells us his reaction to the University of Kent's consultation outcomes
KentOnline / KMTV
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21/03/2024
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We're very, very sad about it. And that's the feeling that I share with all of my other, you know, all of the other students from my course.
00:08
It's devastating to see a department which has been so successful for, I think, about 60 years,
00:14
just shut down without seemingly without much consideration.
00:18
Since the news came out, I mean, it's been well over a month now.
00:23
There's been definitely a bad atmosphere on campus, particularly with the students who are in those courses affected.
00:31
That I've noticed today has definitely dropped hugely.
00:35
I've been on campus all day talking to people and people are upset and people are worried as well.
00:40
People are really, really worried. And like we were saying earlier, the stage one students, a lot of them are thinking about jumping ship.
00:47
You know, it's this isn't a nice position to be in for the students either.
00:51
The level of transparency they've been given us is by no means transparent at all, really.
00:58
We felt like the financial situation hadn't been made completely clear.
01:02
The consultation period, I mean, on the lecturer side of things, there wasn't much information given to the lecturers.
01:11
And the actual plans themselves seemed also almost like smoke and mirrors in a way.
01:19
From the like an anthropology student point of view, this is a very, very devastating.
01:26
It's very devastating news. All of us love this course so much.
01:30
We love our lecturers so much. And we recognise the importance of this course in particular in the country.
01:37
It's one of the only places where they like where they can combine environmental sciences and social sciences.
01:44
And to take away a huge part of that of that social sciences is it's appalling and it's very, very misguided.
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