Critics oppose UCLAN 'privatisation' plan (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Critics oppose UCLAN 'privatisation' plan
3:49pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News
CRITICS of plans to ‘privatise’ a Lancashire university – which has a campus in Burnley – will meet tonight to discuss their next move.
Vice-chancellor Malcolm McVicar has unveiled plans to convert the University of Central Lancashire from a corporation, limited by statute, to a private company, where he would be ‘chief executive’.
Unions fear it will obscure scrutiny of their decision-making process – and offer a pathway into higher education for private equity firms.
Michael MacNeil, higher education head of the University and College Union (UCU), will address a meeting at Greenbank lecture theatre, in Preston, as will Unison regional secretary Kevan Nelson, and TUC regional head Lynn Collins.
Mr MacNeil said: “Our universities’ reputations for excellence are built on the fact that education, not profit, comes first.”
The University and College Union has also launched an online protest petition.
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