//Campus\\
Council: The College Council is the governing body of QMary. Comprising 19 members, of whom 10 are external members. Thus Council is responsible for overseeing the strategic mission, direction and affairs of the College. Council sits at the pinnacle of the College's corporate governance framework, and convenes on six occasions per year.
Source: www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/council/
QMary wages: The ninety highest paid staff at Queen Mary (those paid more than £100,000) cost the college £12m per year. This is an increase of 163% since 2006, and of 196% since 2004.
As almost anywhere wages at QMary are not determined by how hard you work, but on whether you stand in a position of power (managerial, educational, etc.):
PhD Student £ 15,600
Catering £ 16, 000
Security guard £ 20,000
Admin Staff £ 24,500
Junior Lecturer £ 37, 600
Human Manager £ 46, 800
Head of Department £ 85,000
Principal Simon Gaskell £ 250,000+
The above salaries are approximate and have been taken from several online job advertisement. The Principal's salary is public. For comparisons with other UK Universities see:
The Top-paying Universities, Guardian, 14/03/2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/mar/12/universities-high-pay-top-data
Staff and student numbers
Service-based staff is 475. Of those 46% are women, whilst 57% tick the ‘white’ box when asked for their ethnicity.
Equalities Impact Assessment Reports
http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/equality/impactassess/eiareports/index.html
In 2007 it was estimated that 69% of London’s population is 'white'.
Office for National Statistics: http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do;jsessionid=ac1f930c30d802253c52546d4d588575d35bfb6de2b7?a=3&b=276743&c=London&d=13&e=13&g=325264&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1284130602750&enc=1&dsFamilyId=1812&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=false&nswid=1003
Admin staff is 1528. Of these 64% are women, and 71% white.
Academic staff is 1665, of whom only 39% are women and 78% are white.
The total students population is 16726, of whom 69% are home students, 31% overseas students.
This figure includes 1919 Chinese students enrolled at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications http://www.bupt.edu.cn/ for courses in collaboration with departments at QMary.
Overseas student numbers Queen Mary, Student Administration, (student population details by level(UG/PG) and department) (intranet)
http://qm-web.studentadmin.qmul.ac.uk/mis-section/poploadrep.htm
Queen Mary Annual Review (2006)
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/downloads/annualreview/25314.pdf
Queen Mary Financial Statement 2008-2009
http://www.finance.qmul.ac.uk/docs/QM_Fin_Stmnt_2008-09.pdf
//London countermap\\
Cuts
Bail out
Studentification
'Studentification': a guide to opportunities, challenges and practice, 2006, Universities UK
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Publications/Pages/Publication-232.aspx
HEFCE Higher Education Founding Council for England
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
http://www.bis.gov.uk/
//UK countermap\\
Immigration Removal Centres
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/organisation/immigrationremovalcentres/
Research Excellence Framework (REF)
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/about/background/
//Quotes\\
Deported: Artists and Academics Barred from the UK, Manifesto Club: for freedom in everyday life
http://www.manifestoclub.com/deporteddossier
Our own and our friends' experiences.
//Struggles\\
Yarl’s Wood IRC Hunger Strike on the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns website
http://ncadc.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/yarls-wood-hunger-striker-tells-her-story/
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/organisation/immigrationremovalcentres/yarlswood
Middlesex Philosophy Occupation
http://savemdxphil.com/
King’s College No Cuts Campaign
http://nocutsatkings.blogspot.com/
UCU Education Rally and Strike
http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4595
Sussex Occupation
http://sussexoccupation.blogspot.com/
Calais No Border Camp
http://www.calaisnoborder.eu.org/taxonomy/term/2.html
QMary Gaza Occupation
http://queenmaryoccupation.blogspot.com/
//World countermap\\
VSF GLobal
http://www.vfsglobal.com/
Creative Commons Licence
http://creativecommons.org/
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THE GAME
//Visas\\
Home Office, Control of Immigration: quarterly statistical summary, UK, October-December 2009
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/immiq409.pdf
Entry Clearance statistics 2008-2009
http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/resources/en/docs/2958881/visastats2008-09
UK Council for International Student Affairs
http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/working_during.php
Deportation data from the UK Border Agency
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/
//Points-Based Immigration Scheme\\
Students Not suspects. Campaign in opposition to UK Points-Based Immigration
http://studentsnotsuspects.blogspot.com/
UK Colleges Blacklisted by the UKBA go to Court, in UK Student News and Events
http://www.adviceforyou.org.uk/blog/uk-immigration-news-2010/uk-colleges-blacklisted-by-the-ukba-go-to-court/
Other interesting sources that are not in the map...
CAAT - Campaign Against Arms Trade, Clean Investment Universities and Colleges, Queen Mary (2005)
http://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/universities/data/greater_london.php