NHS Worried Over University of Wales Reputation

We have been informed that the NHS which is linked with the University of Wales to run a teaching hospital, is very concerned that patient confidence could be seriously undermined by the University’s global reputation for corruption. The NHS does have a system that ensures hospital complaints are dealt with by the rules, in contrast the University of Wales refuses to have any rules to prevent students from complaining to the Office of the Adjudicator for Higher Education, leaving officers free to threaten students with legal action at taxpayers expense. The Welsh Assembly Government has banned the public from being able to complain about that as well in order to conceal University sector corruption. See Complaint to OFT Concerning Eversheds and Students Not Able to Get a Fair Hearing

Student Dissatisfaction & the Power of Social Networking to Determine Lampeter’s Future

We would like to thank all those students who have been spreading the word about Lampeter. As a result the Lamp Post has had a big increase in the number of visits from social networking sites in support our campaign for an inquiry, and a University Commissioner to make sure Universities play it by the rules.  Unless student concerns are addressed by a process of public consultation the current HEFCW investigation will be a waste of time and money. Moreover, the culture of corruption has got into the paintwork, and will therefore blight any merger with another institution. It will be the students who will determine the future of Lampeter and it seems the lack of them will mean that closure is the only option.

Please help spread the word and help bring about positive change for all students. It was the shortage of labour caused by the Black Death that brought about the end of serfdom, so avoid Lampeter like the plague and bring about an end to this corrupt regime and higher education system. See The Real Reason for Lampeter’s Closure 

Lampeter Redundancies to Pay for Corruption

Times Higher Education has reported that Lampeter is to save £300,000 by making six staff redundant. I am sure that one member of staff will be delighted to know they are losing their job to pay the £50,000 spent on legal fees desperately defending Zed Zorichaks dirty game of stitching up students with fabricated allegations of plagiarism. With regard to his use of anti plagiarism software recent research has shown that as far as accuracy and consistency is concerned you could train a monkey to do better than that. He has done so much to promote Lampeter’s international reputation for corruption and academic fraud, the associated failure of management is the real reason why Lampeter will cease to exist. This is why the other five jobs are going; I wonder who is going to explain that is was done to defend ‘their’ reputation at the expense of the University. 

University of Sleaze Lampeter Goes into Meltdown

• Students walk out to go to a ‘decent’ University.
• Staff go on leave wondering if they have a job to come back too.
• Solicitors for the University Eversheds claim University Council has no idea what is going on.
• The press say that HEFCW have instigated an inquiry HEFCW says it was the University.
• When are the public going to be told the truth about the corruption?

The Lamp Post has been contacted by a large number of undergraduates all complaining of the same thing; poor management, poor academic standards, poor quality of teaching staff, unprofessional conduct and the appalling treatment of that rare and essential commodity ’students’. They are also in a state of disbelief that such a debacle could carry on inside a higher education institution, unfortunately they have found out the hard way that regulation as the public understands it does not happen.  Clearly Lampeter is going into meltdown creating a situation whereby deviant behaviour from staff is getting out of control. Not surprisingly students see any form of complaint being a waste of time and fearing reprisals for doing so they are simply leaving in droves.

Why No Public Consultation?

Perhaps the answer is that HEFCW has its own failings to hide in allowing this situation to happen! Total lack of confidence is the major factor fuelled by speculation that the failure by HEFCW to involve the public in any form of consultation is simply a cover up. Welsh Universities are obviously concerned that they too are going to suffer from Lampeter’s reputation for corruption and academic fraud.

Lampeter’s Problems a Total Failure of Regulation

Please support our campaign to prevent the University of Wales Lampeter from closing down by contacting elected representatives demanding an inquiry into into the loss of academic reputation and falling student numbers. The news about the problems facing the university has been spread throughout the Internet and is now listed on at least a dozen press release websites, countless blog sites and is number one on the Google Blog Search. It has also been recently listed on over a thousand web directories. Clearly this kind of saturation on the Internet has resulted in a loss of confidence in the future on this university not only in the UK but throughout the world and the US in particular. Clearly the economic knock on effects and industrial investment to the area are also going to be affected.

HEFCW to Investigate!

Following our campaign Times Higher Education reported that HEFCW has announced an inquiry in to the future of Lampeter. It is a way of disguising the real reason for their investigation and possible merger or collaboration and that is to avoid the humiliation of the Charity Commissioners doing HEFCW’s their job for them. The failure of HEFCW to intervene has allowed this situation to happen, and they are concealing the waste of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money out of fear for their own survival.  

We Need an Independent Inquiry into Corruption - Not a Cover-Up

The situation is so serious that the UK Parliament, Universities UK, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Quality Assurance Agency are almost daily visitors to this site to keep up with the news of what is going on. You can do your bit by contacting these organisations asking them to intervene to stop Lampeter from closing down. 

Has Vice Chancellor Robert Pearce Resigned?

We have been tipped off by a member of PAIL that there are unconfirmed rumours circulating that Robert Pearce has resigned. This comes as no surprise as we over the last few days have received a number of emails saying that a regime change is the only way to resolve Lampeters problems, in that case we can expect more resignations later. It appears people are concerned about President Brinkley Jones and Secetary and Academic Registrar Thomas Roderick, when we say concerned we mean concerned they might stay!