I'm starting this blog as a way of getting ideas out, discussed, pondered on and maybe even put into action. I love the University of Greenwich which is maybe a little sad but I know that feeling is shared by more than a few other people. But the most common phrase I hear about the Uni is that "its got so much potential!". This usually comes after a chat about why we don't do a certain something here or why we do something badly or in a strange way or why we're so low in the league tables. And it's all true, we do do a lot of things badly, we don't do a lot of very obvious things and we are most definitely are at the bottom of most league tables.
The sad thing is that we do have loads of potential at the Uni (great buildings, great teaching and the most interesting and diverse student body around!) but we don't do anything about it. The reasons I usually hear for this are no money, not enough staff and apathetic students. Broadly true maybe but I've been around here long enough to have seen lots of money frittered away, lots of staff time wasted and lots of enthusiastic students getting slowly disenfranchised.
So this blog is essentially going to be a place where I will post ideas for improving the Uni. I'll post my own and those of others but it doesn't really matter. Ideas can never be owned, the important thing is to try and get a few put into action. However the aim of this blog isn't to plan and instigate projects and proposals it's to discuss and hone ideas, get a bit of support behind them and then spin them off into the University. That's why I hope staff and students will equally comment on the posts. It's amazing what a group of students backed by just a few staff can do so if we can generate some good ideas and a bit of buzz on here then I'm sure it'll happen.
So, onto the ideas...........
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