Category Archives: General

After years of neglect, Kingston University has recently been trying to improve its very poor record on BAME targets. The VC has been telling his long-suffering Silver Commanders and the Governors and just about anybody else who can tolerate him … Continue reading →

How has the KU senior leadership coped with the Covid virus emergency since last March? Dissenter has deliberately kept quiet over the last few months in order to give managers fair space and to see whether they would perform and … Continue reading →

The pain we all feel Extraordinary times. Unprecedented times. Strange times. Kingston School of Art is breaking up it seems. Jo Addison, acting head of fine art, works alongside Lucy Renton, acting head of architecture. They both work for Mandy … Continue reading →

Spiersy wears his VC best Poly grey suit and string vest Students playing up upstairs Leering at the leotards On dancers in glass jars They hang around Town House, the place that cost a mint Town House, now we’re bloody … Continue reading →

It cost £50 million, was designed by top architect firm Grafton Architects, and VC Steven ‘Mr. Bland’ Spier has described it as ‘stunning’. But the new Town House is already becoming a Clown House, showing plenty of signs that it … Continue reading →

We have spoken before about the expensive waste of real estate here at Kingston Hill. There are corridors of empty offices still showing the names of absent, well-paid (or paid off) executives. Only the depleted occupational health team, led by … Continue reading →